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гомила

//ɡǒmila//
Serbo-Croatiannoun
Latinica: gomilaone entry, two scripts

Definitions

  1. 1.
    tumulus, barrow, sepulchral cairn
  2. 2.
    pile, heap, any disordered multitude of collected inanimate objects, especially formerly animate objects
  3. 3.
    crowd, mob, throng, host, any disordered collection of living things
  4. 4.
    multitude of abstract things
  5. 5.
    place where garbage or dung is collected, dungyard, dunghill
  6. 6.
    curse used for lazy relatives
  7. 7.
    the people, the popular mass as a whole
  8. 8.
    archaicheap of stones
  9. 9.
    obsolete(by semantic narrowing) heap of stones used as a marker to delineate the borders of a medieval estate
  10. 10.
    obsolete(by semantic widening) hill
  11. 11.
    archaicruins of a house or city razed so that no stone is left atop any other
  12. 12.
    archaic(Dubrovnik) (by metaphor) place containing ruins of houses destroyed by earthquake
  13. 13.
    archaic(Dubrovnik) (by metonymy) refuse thrown into the ruins of earthquake-destroyed houses
  14. 14.
    archaic(by metonymy) stones thrown at one who is being stoned
  15. 15.
    archaicwall of stone built without mortar or lime, especially one by the seashore

Synonyms & related words

Word family
  • ди̏ћи го̀милу
Synonyms
  • ху̑м

Etymology

By metathesis from могила, from Proto-Slavic *mogyla (“sepulchral cairn”). Cognates include Russian могила (mogila), Czech mohyla, Polish mogiła, and Lithuanian mogila. Possible cognates include Romanian movilă, moghilă, măgură, and măgulă, Aromanian mãgulã, and Albanian gamulë and magulë. An alternative proposed etymology derives гомила from a hypothesized Proto-Slavic *gomyla/*gomula/*gomolь/*gomola (“lump, pile”).

Forms

  • го̀милаcanonical • feminine
  • gòmilaromanization
Nominative
Singular
гомила
Plural
гомиле
Genitive
Singular
гомиле
Plural
гомила
Dative
Singular
гомили
Plural
гомилама
Accusative
Singular
гомилу
Plural
гомиле
Vocative
Singular
гомило
Plural
гомиле
Locative
Singular
гомили
Plural
гомилама
Instrumental
Singular
гомилом
Plural
гомилама

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