грях

• грѣхъ (grěh) (Pre-reform orthography (1945))

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *grěxъ.

• IPA^(key): [ɡrʲa̟x]

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грях • (grjah) m

1. (theology, countable) sin, violation of sacred norms or laws

   първороден грях ― pǎrvoroden grjah ― original sin

   смъртен грях ― smǎrten grjah ― deadly sin

2. (ethics, uncountable) vice, corruption, moral degradation

   някому тежи грях на душата ― njakomu teži grjah na dušata ― to feel guilt, remorse (literally, “vice weights on s.o.'s soul”)

   вкарвам в грях ― vkarvam v grjah ― to corrupt (literally, “to drive into vice”)

   влизам в грях ― vlizam v grjah ― to trespass (literally, “to enter into vice”)

3. (colloquial) wrongdoing, trespass, transgression

   сторвам грях ― storvam grjah ― to commit [general] wrongdoing

• “грях”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “грях”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Nayden Gerov (1895) “грѣхъ”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎^[1] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 256
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “грях”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 290
• “грѣхъ”, in Старобългарски речник [Dictionary of Old Bulgarian] (in Bulgarian), https://histdict.uni-sofia.bg, 2011—2025