пеперуда

/[pɛpɛˈrudɐ]/

Bulgariannoun

Definitions

1.
butterfly (daytime lepidopterous insect of superfamily Papilionoidea)
2.
type of embroidery ornament
3.
fly-by-night
4.
Perperuna (custom for evoking rain, common throughout the Balkans)
5.
regionalflower of family Iridaceae

Synonyms & related words

Word family

но́щна пеперу́да

Synonyms

перуни́ка
сале́п
перуница
преперуша
додола

Related words (7)

перу́ха
перуши́на
перуни́ка
перуни́га
пря́пор
пря́порец
по́ра

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *perperǫda, *perperǫga, *perperuxa, *perperica, of disputed origin: * Mladenov: Derived via reduplication from Proto-Slavic *perti, *pьrati (“to fly, to propagate”) or *pero (“feather”). * Meyer: Wanderword, akin to Latin papīlio (“butterfly”), Romanian paparugă (“ladybug”), Italian parpaglione (“butterfly”), possibly of onomatopoeic nature. * Ultimately derived from Proto-Kartvelian *p̣erp̣er- (“butterfly”). The ending has been compared to the suffix of Greek πεταλούδα (petaloúda, “butterfly”), itself of unclear origin.