полата

Semantic specialization of Old Church Slavonic полата (polata, “palace”), of Latin origin. Diachronic doublet of later пала́т (palát).

• IPA^(key): [poˈɫatɐ]

пола́та • (poláta) f

1. (dated, architecture) open exterior platform at the roof of buildings used for rest and recreation (sort of roof terrace)

   Synonyms: (partially) чарда́к (čardák), кьошк (kjošk), и́злез (ízlez)

   Antonym: вера́нда (veránda, “roofed platform”)

• пула́та (puláta) — dialectal, with narrowing of unstressed -o-

• пола́тица (polática, “decorated balcony, small terrace”)

• “пулата”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “полата”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 493
• Nayden Gerov, Тодор Панчев (1901) “пола́та”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎^[1] (in Bulgarian), volume 4, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 146

An early borrowing from Latin palātium, likely via intermediate Byzantine Greek παλάτιον (palátion).

полата • (polata) f

1. palace

• полата in Исторически речник на Българския език, Sofia University "St. Clement Ohridsky"
• “полата”, in GORAZD (overall work in Czech, English, and Russian), http://gorazd.org, 2016—2025