коскоджа

Bulgarian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قوص قوجه (kos koca), whence Turkish koskoca, an emphatic form of koca. See Turkish koskocaman for another example of such an emphatic construction.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkɔskoˈdʒa̟]
  • Audio (Standard Bulgarian):(file)
  • Syllabification(key): ко‧ско‧джа
  • Hyphenation(key): кос‧ко‧джа

Adjective

ко́скоджа́ • (kóskodžá) (indeclinable) (colloquial)

  1. too big; quite big
  2. (of people, usually as коскоджамити) grown-up, adult
    Ко́скоджа́ мъж, мама още го пере. ― Kóskodžá mǎž, mama ošte go pere. ― A grown man, yet his mom still does his laundry.

Adverb

ко́скоджа́ • (kóskodžá) (not comparable) (colloquial)

  1. too much; quite a lot
    Има ко́скоджа́ неща в торбата. ― Ima kóskodžá nešta v torbata. ― There's too much stuff in the bag.

References

  • “коскоджа”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • “коскоджа”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
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