пищов
/[piʃˈtɔf]/
Bulgariannoun
Definitions
- 1.pistol, handgun
На гол тумба́к - чифте́ пищо́ви.
Na gol tumbák - čifté pištóvi. — Naked, but decorated with a pair of pistols. (idiom)
- 2.colloquialcheat sheet (summary of notes written on a small piece of paper, used as a cheat during written tests)
Synonyms & related words
Word family
- разпищо́вя се
Related words (9)
- пище́
- пи́ска
- писка́ло
- писку́н
- пищя́лка
- пищя́л
- писка́л
- писка́вец
- пистоле́т
Etymology
Colloquialized reflex of Ottoman Turkish پيستول (“pistol”) (itself a French or German borrowing), ultimately of Slavic origin. By surface analysis, пищя́ (pištjá, “to squeak, to scream”) + -ов (-ov). Also borrowed into Romanian pișcol (colloquial), Greek πιστόλι (pistóli)).
Forms
- пищо́вcanonical • masculine
- pištóvromanization
- пищо́вindefinite • singular
- пищо́виindefinite • plural
- пищо́вътdefinite • singular • subjective
- пищо́витеdefinite • plural • subjective
- пищо́ваdefinite • objective • singular
- пищо́витеdefinite • objective • plural
- -count-form • singular
- пищо́ваcount-form • plural
- плющо́вalternative • dialectal
- плищо́вalternative • dialectal
- пищо́лalternative • dated
- пищо́льalternative • dated