костура
/[koˈsturɐ]/
Bulgariannoun
Grammatical form
костура is an inflected form of косту́р — “perch, bass (freshwater fish of family Percidae)”.
Definitions
- 1.archaicdialectalknife without a handle
- 2.archaicdialectalused, dull knife
- 3.archaicdialectalfolding knife, pocketknife
Etymology
The Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary summarizes several hypotheses: * per Trubachyov and Melnychuk, from the o-grade of Proto-Indo-European *kes- (“to scrape, comb”) + -tr-. * per Skok and others - from Romanian custură (“blade, knife edge”). * per Mladenov and others - from кост (kost, “bone”).
Forms
- косту́раcanonical • feminine
- kostúraromanization
- косту́ркаdiminutive
- косту́раindefinite • singular
- косту́риindefinite • plural
- косту́ратаdefinite • singular
- косту́ритеdefinite • plural
- косту́рalternative
- ко́стерalternative
- косту́раcanonical