химия

Ultimately from Ancient Greek χυμεία (khumeía, “art of alloying metals”), probably influenced by other languages. Cognate to English alchemy and chemistry, see there for more.

• IPA^(key): [ˈximijɐ]

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• Syllabification^(key): хи‧ми‧я
• Hyphenation^(key): хи‧мия
• Rhymes: -imijɐ

хи́мия • (hímija) f (relational adjective хими́чески or хими́чен)

1. chemistry
2. (low colloquial, derogatory) something unnatural, the product of synthetic chemical processes

   –Няма ли да пиеш лекарство? –Ъ, това е все химия! Няма да пия.

   –Njama li da pieš lekarstvo? –Ǎ, tova e vse himija! Njama da pija.

   –Aren't you going to take some medicine? –Hmph, it's all chemistry! No, I won't.

3. a chemistry textbook
4. (figurative) chemistry (mutual attraction between two people)

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

Borrowed from Russian хи́мия (xímija), from Ancient Greek χυμεία (khumeía).

• IPA^(key): [ˈxʲimʲɪjə]

химия • (ximiä)

1. chemistry

• химиялық (ximiälyq)
• химияшы (ximiäşy)

• хѵ́мія (xímija) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

• IPA^(key): [ˈxʲimʲɪjə]

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хи́мия • (xímija) f inan (genitive хи́мии, nominative plural хи́мии, genitive plural хи́мий, relational adjective хими́ческий)

1. chemistry
2. (colloquial) perm (hairstyle, short for хими́ческая зави́вка (ximíčeskaja zavívka))
3. (colloquial) chemicals

   в э́тих овоща́х мно́го хи́мии ― v étix ovoščáx mnógo xímii ― these vegetables contain a lot of chemicals

4. (colloquial) machinations, tricks
5. (prison slang, Soviet Union from the 1960s, still in Belarus) construction work or other penal labour to which a convict (хи́мик (xímik)) is bound in place of detention proper
6. (colloquial) contraction of химиотерапи́я (ximioterapíja)

• хими́ческий (ximíčeskij)
• химика́лии f pl (ximikálii)
• хи́мик m (xímik)
• хими́чить impf (ximíčitʹ)

• → Kazakh: химия (ximiä)