# път
## Bulgarian
### Alternative forms

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

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pɤt]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

път • (pǎt) (relational adjective пъ́тен)
* 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”)
* 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”)
* journey, voyage, flight
    Synonym: пъту́ване (pǎtúvane)
    търгвам на път за ― tǎrgvam na pǎt za ― to depart on a journey to
* way, means
    Synonym: сре́дство (srédstvo)
* parting, part (the dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions)

#### Alternative forms

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

#### Derived terms

* (causative-iterative) пъ́тя (pǎ́tja) (dialectal)
* пътеше́ствам (pǎtešéstvam, “to journey”)
* (iterative) пъту́вам (pǎtúvam)
* безпъ́тица (bezpǎ́tica, “blind alley”)
* пъ́тник (pǎ́tnik, “passenger”)
* пъ́тство (pǎ́tstvo) (obsolete)
* пътеше́ственик (pǎtešéstvenik, “traveller”)
* пътеше́ствие (pǎtešéstvie, “trip”)
* разпъ́тица (razpǎ́tica)
* -път (-pǎt) (in compounds)
** кръстопъ́т (krǎstopǎ́t, “crossroad”)
** полпъ́ти (polpǎ́ti, “halfway”) (adverb, dialectal)

#### See also

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

### References

* “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 [Old Bulgarian Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), https://histdict.uni-sofia.bg, 2011—2024

### Noun

път • (pǎt) m
* time (an instance or occurrence)
    един път ― edin pǎt ― one time, once
    няколко пъти ― njakolko pǎti ― several times

#### Declension
### References

* “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

### Anagrams

* тъп (tǎp)