гомила
Pronunciation: /ɡǒmila/
“гомила” is a Serbo-Croatian word. Its 15 meanings in English:
noun
- heap of stones
- (by semantic narrowing) heap of stones used as a marker to delineate the borders of a medieval estate
- (by semantic widening) hill
- tumulus, barrow, sepulchral cairn
- ruins of a house or city razed so that no stone is left atop any other
- (Dubrovnik) (by metaphor) place containing ruins of houses destroyed by earthquake
- (Dubrovnik) (by metonymy) refuse thrown into the ruins of earthquake-destroyed houses
- (by metonymy) stones thrown at one who is being stoned
- wall of stone built without mortar or lime, especially one by the seashore
- pile, heap, any disordered multitude of collected inanimate objects, especially formerly animate objects
- crowd, mob, throng, host, any disordered collection of living things
- multitude of abstract things
- place where garbage or dung is collected, dungyard, dunghill
- curse used for lazy relatives
- the people, the popular mass as a whole
Etymology
By metathesis from могила, from Proto-Slavic *mogyla (“sepulchral cairn”). Cognates include Russian могила (mogila), Czech mohyla, Polish mogiła, and Lithuanian mogila. Possible cognates include Romanian movilă, moghilă, măgură, and măgulă, Aromanian mãgulã, and Albanian gamulë and magulë. An alternative proposed etymology derives гомила from a hypothesized Proto-Slavic…
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