въгарец

From Proto-Slavic *ǫgrъ (“creep, bug, larva”) +‎ -ец (-ec). Cognate with Serbo-Croatian у̀грк (“larva of gadfly”), Slovene ọ̑grc (“pustula caused by a parasite”) and akin to Polish wągier (“comedo”), Czech uher (“pimple”).

• IPA^(key): [vəɡɐˈrɛt͡s]

въгаре́ц • (vǎgaréc) m

1. (obsolete) parasitic bug, worm, creep

   Synonym: (partially) глист (glist)

2. parasitic larva of botflies (which causes myiasis on ungulates and other large mammals)
3. (by extension) (adult) botfly, gadfly, warble fly (dipteran insect of family Oestridae)

   Synonym: щръ́клица (štrǎ́klica)

• въгъре́ц (vǎgǎréc) – dialectal
• у́гър (úgǎr), у́гар (úgar), въ́гър (vǎ́gǎr), я́гър (jágǎr) – outdated, regional

• въ́гарест (vǎ́garest), въгари́т (vǎgarít, “creepy, annoying, irritant like a bug”)
• въгаря́сам (vǎgarjásam, “to get infected by gadfly's larvae”)

• въгарец in Rečnik na bǎlgarskija ezik (Institut za bǎlgarski ezik)
• въгарец in Rečnik na bǎlgarskija ezik (Čitanka.Info)
• Georgiev V. I., editor (1971), “въгърец, въгарец”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 201