помия

Bulgarian

Etymology

Deverbal from помивам (pomivam, “to wash out”) (formally reflecting as earlier *pomyja). Related to Russian помо́и m pl (pomói, “swill, slops”), Polish pomyje (“slops, swill”), Old Church Slavonic помꙑѩ (pomyję).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [poˈmijɐ]

Noun

поми́я • (pomíja) f (relational adjective поми́ен)

1. sewage, swill, slops
2. (figurative, collective) insults, aspersions

   хвърлям помия по някого ― hvǎrljam pomija po njakogo ― to insult (literally, “to throw filth at somebody”)

Declension

Declension of поми́я

	singular
indefinite	поми́я pomíja
definite	поми́ята pomíjata

Related terms

• ми́ене (míene, “washing”)

References

• “помия”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “помия”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “помои”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress