къща

• кѫ́ща (kǫ́šta) (Pre-reform orthography (1945))
• ка́ща (kášta) – dialectal
• ку́кя (kúkja) – dialectal

From Proto-Slavic *kǫťa. Compare dialectal Bulgarian кът (kǎt, “seating area around a fireplace”). Cognates include Serbo-Croatian ку̏ћа/kȕća, Russian ку́ща (kúšča, “tent”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɤʃtə]

къ́ща • (kǎ́šta) f

1. house
2. home

   Ра́ботя от къ́щи.

   Rábotja ot kǎ́šti.

   I am working from home.

3. household, family

Modern Bulgarian has preserved the locative form къщи in combination with prepositions, even though it has lost most of its grammatical cases elsewhere:

• вкъ́щи (vkǎ́šti, “at home”)
• от къ́щи (ot kǎ́šti, “from home”)
• към къ́щи (kǎm kǎ́šti, “towards home”)

• закъ́щя се (zakǎ́štja se, “to acquire home”)
• разкъ́щя се (razkǎ́štja se, “to divorce”) (dialectal, obsolete)
• къ́щичка (kǎ́štička), къ́щица (kǎ́štica), къщу́рка (kǎštúrka), къще́ (kǎšté) (diminutive)
• къ́щен (kǎ́šten, “home-related, domestic”)
  • къ́щнина (kǎ́štnina, “house work”)
• къ́щник m (kǎ́štnik, “host”), къ́щница f (kǎ́štnica, “hostess, housewife”)
• къ́щовник m (kǎ́štovnik), къ́щовница f (kǎ́štovnica, “one who put efforts on their home”)

• къща in Rečnik na bǎlgarskija ezik (Institut za bǎlgarski ezik)
• къща in Rečnik na bǎlgarskija ezik (Čitanka.Info)
• Georgiev V. I., editor (1986), “къща”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 239