баница

From (South) Proto-Slavic *gъbanica, *gybanica (“bending, folding”), in reference to the manner of preparation of banitsa (through folding of pastry sheets). Cognate with Macedonian баница (banica), Serbo-Croatian гибаница.

ба́ница • (bánica) f

1. banitsa (a type of pie)

• гибам (gibam), огъвам (ogǎvam), гъна (gǎna, “to fold, to bend”)
• губя (gubja, “to lose”)
• гибел (gibel, “loss, doom, death”)

• баница in Rečnik na bǎlgarskija ezik (Institut za bǎlgarski ezik)
• Georgiev V. I., editor (1971), “баница”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 31

• IPA^(key): [ˈbanit͡sa]
• Hyphenation: ба‧ни‧ца

ба́ница • (bánica) f (plural ба́ници, diminutive ба́ничка)

1. banitsa (type of pie)
2. wife of a ban (ban = title)

• пи́та f (píta)
• ба́ничар m (báničar)

• “баница” in Дигитален речник на македонскиот јазик (Digitalen rečnik na makedonskiot jazik) [Digital dictionary of the Macedonian language] − drmj.eu