агония

Borrowed from Russian аго́ния (agónija) and Polish agonia, in turn from Ancient Greek ἀγωνία (agōnía, “emulation, competition, struggle”).

• IPA^(key): [ɐˈɡɔnijɐ]

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аго́ния • (agónija) f

1. agony, death pangs

• “агония”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “агония”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “аго̀ния”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 4
• “агония”, in Български тълковен речник [Bulgarian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), fourth edition, Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 2005, page 18

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀγωνία (agōnía, “emulation, competition, struggle”).

• IPA^(key): [ɐˈɡonʲɪjə]

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аго́ния • (agónija) f inan (genitive аго́нии, nominative plural аго́нии, genitive plural аго́ний)

1. agony, death pangs
   • 1880, Михаил Салтыков-Щедрин [Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin], “Выморочный”, in Господа Головлёвы, Санкт-Петербург: Отечественные записки; English translation from I. P. Foote, transl., The Golovlevs, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986:

     Аго́ния Иу́душки начала́сь с того́, что ресу́рс праздносло́вия, кото́рым он до сих по́р так охо́тно злоупотребля́л, стал ви́димо сокраща́ться.

     Agónija Iúduški načalásʹ s tovó, što resúrs prazdnoslóvija, kotórym on do six pór tak oxótno zloupotrebljál, stal vídimo sokraščátʹsja.

     The final agony of Judas began when the opportunities to engage in prattle, which till now he had so happily exploited, began noticeably to contract.

• → Georgian: აგონია (agonia)