път

• пѫть (pǫtʹ) (Pre-reform orthography (1945))

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pǫtь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pántis, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s.

• IPA^(key): [pɤt]

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път • (pǎt) (relational adjective пъ́тен)

1. path, road, way, alley (infrastructure on which one travels)

   Synonyms: пъте́ка (pǎtéka), шосе́ (šosé, “chaussée”), але́я (aléja)

   правя/сторвам път някому ― pravja/storvam pǎt njakomu ― to make/clear way to s.o.

   железен път ― železen pǎt ― railway (literally, “iron path”)

   главен път ― glaven pǎt ― main road

   скоростен път ― skorosten pǎt ― highway (literally, “high-speed road”)

   царски път ― carski pǎt ― royal road (literally, “king's road”)

   черен път ― čeren pǎt ― back road (literally, “black road”)

   първокласен път ― pǎrvoklasen pǎt ― primary road

   второкласен път ― vtoroklasen pǎt ― secondary road

   край пътя ― kraj pǎtja ― by the road

   под път и над път (idiom) ― pod pǎt i nad pǎt ― at many places, omnipresent (literally, “under way and over way”)

2. route, course, track, trajectory (direction of travel)

   Synonyms: маршру́т (maršrút), трасе́ (trasé), траекто́рия (traektórija)

   по този път ― po tozi pǎt ― along this track

   на прав път (idiom) ― na prav pǎt ― in the right direction (literally, “on a straightforward trajectory”)

3. journey, voyage, flight

   Synonym: пъту́ване (pǎtúvane)

   търгвам на път за ― tǎrgvam na pǎt za ― to depart on a journey to

4. way, means

   Synonym: сре́дство (srédstvo)

5. parting, part (the dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions)

• пат (pat), пут (put) — dialectal, with alternative reflexes of Proto-Slavic *-ǫ-
• пънт (pǎnt) — dialectal, with decomposed nasalism

• -път (-pǎt) (in compounds)
  • кръстопъ́т (krǎstopǎ́t, “crossroad”)
  • полпъ́ти (polpǎ́ti, “halfway”) (adverb, dialectal)

• пъте́ка (pǎtéka, “path”) (technically from Proto-Slavic *poteka (“stream course”), influenced by път (pǎt))

• “път¹”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “път”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (2002), “път¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 6 (пỳскам – словàр²), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 191
• “пѫть”, in Старобългарски речник [Dictionary of Old Bulgarian] (in Bulgarian), https://histdict.uni-sofia.bg, 2011—2025

път • (pǎt) m

1. time (an instance or occurrence)

   един път ― edin pǎt ― one time, once

   няколко пъти ― njakolko pǎti ― several times

• “път²”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (2002), “път²”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 6 (пỳскам – словàр²), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 191

• тъп (tǎp)