катур

Bulgarian

Etymology

By surface analysis, кат (kat, “span, turn”) +‎ -ур (-ur).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkator]

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Noun

ка́тур • (kátur) m (dialectal)

1. turnaround (place where one can do a U-turn)

   Synonym: обръща́ло (obrǎštálo)

Declension

	singular	plural
indefinite	ка́тур kátur	ка́тури káturi
definite (subject form)	ка́турът káturǎt	ка́турите káturite
definite (object form)	ка́тура kátura
count form	—	ка́тура kátura

Declension of ка́тур

Derived terms

• кату́ря impf (katúrja), кату́рвам impf (katúrvam), кату́рна pf (katúrna, “to turn over”)

References

• “катур”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1979), “катур”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 2 (и – крепя̀), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 278