"бир" meaning in Bulgarian

See бир in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [bir]
Rhymes: -ir Etymology: Inherited from Middle Bulgarian бирь (birĭ) (attested in Manasses Chronicle). Further origin disputed. Either: * Deverbal from the intensive stem *birati of native бера́ (berá, “to pick”). * Of Oghur origin, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *bẹ̄ri. Etymology templates: {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|bg|cu-bgm|бирь|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle Bulgarian бирь (birĭ), {{inh+|bg|cu-bgm|бирь}} Inherited from Middle Bulgarian бирь (birĭ), {{der|bg|trk-ogr|-}} Oghur, {{cog|trk-pro|*bẹ̄ri}} Proto-Turkic *bẹ̄ri Head templates: {{bg-noun|бир|m}} бир • (bir) m Inflection templates: {{bg-ndecl|бир<+и>}} Forms: bir [romanization], no-table-tags [table-tags], бир [indefinite, singular], би́ри [indefinite, plural], би́рът [definite, singular, subjective], би́рите [definite, plural, subjective], би́ра [definite, objective, singular], би́рите [definite, objective, plural], - [count-form, singular], би́ра [count-form, plural]
  1. (historical) tax, duty Tags: historical, masculine Derived forms: биру́вам (causative-iterative) [verb], би́рка (bírka) [diminutive, noun], би́рник (bírnik) (english: tax collector) [noun] Related terms: о́бир (óbir) (english: robbery), сби́рка (sbírka) (english: compendium) Coordinate_terms: да́нък (dánǎk) (english: duty, tax; general term), нало́г (nalóg), обло́г (oblóg) (english: duty), та́кса (táksa) (english: tax), верги́я (vergíja) (english: duty; during Ottoman times)
    Sense id: en-бир-bg-noun-dJ~YLTSQ Categories (other): Bulgarian entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 12 entries, Pages with entries
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Bulgarian dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-03-02 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-02-01 using wiktextract (d146717 and 59dc20b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.