земя

From Proto-Slavic *zemľa, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *źemē, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm.

• IPA^(key): [zɛˈmʲa̟]

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• Rhymes: -mʲa
• Homophone: Земя (Zemja)
• Hyphenation^(key): зе‧мя

земя́ • (zemjá) f (relational adjective зе́мен)

1. (uncountable) earth, ground, humus; (collectively) terrain

   буца земя ― buca zemja ― a lump of earth

   плодородна земя ― plodorodna zemja ― fertile soil

   сушава земя ― sušava zemja ― arid terrain

2. (countable) land, territory (area of land)

   населена земя ― naselena zemja ― populated territory

   притежател на земи ― pritežatel na zemi ― landlord (literally, “owner of territories”)

3. (countable) land, realm (land associated with a given state)

   чужди земи ― čuždi zemi ― foreign lands

   далечни земи ― dalečni zemi ― distant realms

• Земя́ (Zemjá)

• “земя”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “земя”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “земя́¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 634
• Ivanova-Mirčeva, D., editor (1999), “ꙁемлꙗ”, in Старобългарски речник [Old Church Slavonic Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Valentin Trajanov, page 540

• змея (zmeja), мезя (mezja)