охлюв

Bulgarian

Земен охлюв (Helix pomatia)

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek χοχλίας (chochlías), a dialectal variation of Ancient Greek κοχλίας (kokhlías, “snail”) (whence Old Church Slavonic кохль (koxlĭ), Latin cōchlea (“snail”)). Originally referring to the spiral shell of the snail, later generalized to mean the whole animal.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɔxlʲʊf]

Noun

о́хлюв • (óhljuv) m (related adjective о́хлювен, diminutive о́хлювче)

(mollusk) snail (gastropod of genus Helix)
Synonyms: (dialectal) бухер (buher), (archaic) слима́к (slimák), (dialectal) пасо́к (pasók)

гол о́хлюв ― gol óhljuv ― slug (literally, “naked snail)”)
(anatomy) helix
(anatomy) cochlea

Declension

Declension of о́хлюв

	singular	plural
indefinite	о́хлюв óhljuv	о́хлюви óhljuvi
definite (subject form)	о́хлювът óhljuvǎt	о́хлювите óhljuvite
definite (object form)	о́хлюва óhljuva	о́хлювите óhljuvite
count form	—	о́хлюва óhljuva

Alternative forms

о́хльов (óhljov), о́хлев (óhlev)

Related terms

охли́дка (ohlídka, “snail's shell”) (dialectal)

References

охлюв in Rečnik na bǎlgarskija ezik (Institut za bǎlgarski ezik)
охлюв in Rečnik na bǎlgarskija ezik (Čitanka.Info)
Georgiev V. I., Duridanov I., editor (1995), “охлюв, охльо”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 983

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