мъркам се

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Etymology[edit]

Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary favours a grammatical origin from Proto-Slavic *mьrkati (to smudge, to daub) (implied also by Vasmer in relation to probable cognate Russian мереча (mereča, sludge)). Other hypotheses view it as a figurative sense of onomatopoeic мъ́ркам (mǎ́rkam, to purr).

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мъ́ркам се (mǎ́rkam se) first-singular present indicativeimpf (dialectal)

  1. (reflexive with се) to oestruate, to rut, to go into heat (of animals, usually livestock)
  2. (by extension) to conceive, to get pregnant (of animals)

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1st person forms exist only in theory (unless used in an euphemistic sense by a person).

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