дропла

From Proto-Slavic *dropľа, *dropy, probably a back-formation of Proto-Slavic *dьropъty (“fleeing bird”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈdrɔpɫɐ]

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дро́пла • (drópla) f

1. bustard (bird of family Otidae), in particular great bustard (Otis tarda)
2. (figurative) clumsy, sluggish woman

• дро́пя (drópja), дро́хва (dróhva) — dialectal

• голя́ма дро́пла (goljáma drópla, “great bustard, Otis tarda”)
• ма́лка дро́пла (málka drópla, “little bustard, Otis tarda”)
• пусти́нна дро́пла (pustínna drópla, “houbara bustard, Chlamydotis undulata”) (literally: desert bustard)

• дро́пам (drópam, “to trample, to wade over wet surface”) (dialectal)

• “дропла”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “дропла”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “дропла”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 431

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dropъty, whose first part is probably from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“run”) and the other from Proto-Slavic *pъta (“bird”), which is probably based on Proto-Indo-European *put- (“a young, a child, a little animal”).^[1][2]

Cognate to Russian дрофа (drofa), Czech drop, Polish drop, Romanian dropie.

• IPA^(key): [ˈdrɔpɫa]

дропла • (dropla) f (plural дропли)

1. great bustard