хамсия

Bulgarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خمسی (hamsı), from Greek χαμψί (champsí). Cognates include Turkish hamsi, Romanian hamsie, Russian хамса (xamsa) and Kazakh қамса (qamsa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [xɐmˈsijɐ]
• Syllabification^(key): хам‧си‧я
• Hyphenation^(key): хам‧сия
• Rhymes: -ijɐ

Noun

хамси́я • (hamsíja) f (relational adjective хамси́ен, diminutive хамси́йка)

1. European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus)

Declension

	singular	plural
indefinite	хамси́я hamsíja	хамси́и hamsíi
definite	хамси́ята hamsíjata	хамси́ите hamsíite

Declension of хамси́я

References

• “хамсия”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “хамсия”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010