навяк

• IPA^(key): [ˈnavʲɐk]
• Rhymes: -avʲɐk
• Syllabification^(key): на‧вяк

на́ви m pl (návi, “undead”) +‎ -як (-jak)

на́вяк • (návjak) m (dialectal)

1. (folklore) ghoul, ghost (usually of a stillborn)
2. (by extension) a hex or a detriment that causes labour pains

• “навяк¹”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• Nayden Gerov (1899), “на́вꙗкъ, -ꙗци”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language] (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 132
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “навяк”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 462

Contracted from an earlier *навия́к (*naviják) – an agent noun of нави́я (navíja, “to wind around”) +‎ -як (-jak).

на́вяк • (návjak) m (dialectal)

1. curlew (a wader bird of genus Numenius)

   Synonym: свире́ц (sviréc)

• навива́ч (naviváč, “cheerer”) (colloquial)

• “навяк²”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014