алабраце

According to Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary, from Romanian la brața, with given meaning “under arm”. The collocation la braț (literally “in/at arm”) can be found in Romanian dictionaries with this meaning. Note also that la means “in, at”, and brațe is the plural of braț (“arm”), giving a compound meaning of “in arms”, although this is not the analysis given by BED.

On the contrary, it claims that the final /a/ of la brața was adapted into Bulgarian as /ɛ/ due to analogy with other Bulgarian adverbs in -е (-e), e.g. добре́ (dobré), зле (zle), го́ре (góre); and also, perhaps with ръце́ (rǎcé).

Further, the initial а- (a-) is from conflation with ала́ (alá), such as is used in ала турка (ala turka).

• IPA^(key): [ɐɫɐˈbrat͡sɛ]
  • Rhymes: -at͡sɛ
• IPA^(key): [ɐɫɐbrɐˈt͡sɛ]
  • Rhymes: -t͡sɛ
• Syllabification^(key): а‧ла‧бра‧це
• Hyphenation^(key): алаб‧ра‧це

алабра́це or алабраце́ • (alabráce or alabracé) (not comparable) (obsolete, literary)

1. arm in arm

• “алабраце”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “алабра̀це”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 8