врът

Bulgarian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vьrtъ (“turn, enclosure”), cognate with Serbo-Croatian вр̏т and akin to Russian вертоград (vertograd). The meaning garden continues Old Church Slavonic врьтъ (vrĭtŭ, “garden”) and is nowadays limited to dialects from South-Western Bulgaria (and Slavic dialects in Northern Greece).

Noun

врът • (vrǎt) m

turn, rotation
(dialectal) vegetable garden
Synonym: зеленчукова градина (zelenčukova gradina)

Alternative forms

ворт (vort) (dialectal)

Inflection

Inflection of врът

	singular	plural
indefinite	врът	врътове
definite (subject form)	врътът	врътовете
definite (object form)	връта	врътовете
count form	—	връта
vocative form	връте	врътове

Derived terms

врътка (vrǎtka, “small arc, rotation”) (diminutive)
връщам (vrǎštam, “to return”)

Related terms

въртя (vǎrtja, “to rotate, to turn around”)
въртоп (vǎrtop, “whirlpool”)
врат (vrat, “neck”)
врата (vrata, “door”)

References

врът in Речник на българския език
врьтъ in Исторически речник на Българския език, Sofia University "St. Clement Ohridsky"
Georgiev Vl. I., editor (1971), “врът²”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 219

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