дрян

Bulgarian

Etymology

Continues Old Church Slavonic дрѣнъ (drěnŭ) from Proto-Slavic *dernъ.

Noun

дрян • (drjan) m

  1. plant from genus Cornus
  2. (by specification) European cornel (Cornus mas)

Alternative forms
  • дрен (dren) (dialectal, Western dialects)
  • дран (dran) (dialectal, Central Balkan and Southern Rupian dialects)

Inflection
Inflection of дрян
singular plural
indefinite дрян дрянове
definite
(subject form)		 дрянът дряновете
definite
(object form)		 дряна
count form — дряна
vocative form дряне дрянове

Derived terms
  • дрянка (drjanka), dial. дренка (drenka, “fruit of dogwood”)
  • дрянов (drjanov)

References
  • дрян in Речник на българския език
  • Georgiev Vl. I., editor (1971), “дрян¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 440
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