шалвари

Bulgarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شالوار (şalvar) (whence modern Turkish şalvar／şelvar) + native plural marker.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ʃɐɫˈvari]

Noun

шалва́ри • (šalvári) pl

(plural only) shalwars (type of trousers worn in Muslim countries)

Declension

Declension of шалва́ри

	plural
indefinite	шалва́ри šalvári
definite	шалва́рите šalvárite

Coordinate terms

га́щи (gášti, “trousers”)
пантало́ни (pantalóni, “pants”)
поту́ри (potúri, “slacks”)
пижа́ма (pižáma, “pajamas”)

References

“шалвари”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
“шалвари”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
Krǎsteva, Vesela (2003) “шалвари”, in Тълковен речник на турцизмите в българския език [Explanatory Dictionary of Turkisms in the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Skorpio vi, page 234

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