струя

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *struja.

стру́я • (strúja) f (relational adjective стру́ен, diminutive стру́йка)

1. stream, spurt, blast (of fluid)
2. jet, flux, vector (of current)

• “струя (1)”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Todorov, T. A., Racheva, M., editors (2010), “струя”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 7 (слòво – теря̀свам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 508
• “строуꙗ”, in Старобългарски речник [Dictionary of Old Bulgarian] (in Bulgarian), https://histdict.uni-sofia.bg, 2011—2025

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *strujiti (i-conjugation), *strujati (ě/i-conjugation).

струя́ • (strujá) first-singular present indicative, impf (perfective стру́йна)

1. (intransitive) to stream
   1. to jet, to spurt, to flush

      Водата струи.

      Vodata strui.

      The water spurts.

   2. to ray (for light), to stream (for current)
2. (transitive, dialectal) to make spew, squirt, disperse (of fluids)

   струя течението ― struja tečenieto ― to accelerate the flow

3. (reflexive with се) to flow, to leak in a stream

• заструя pf (zastruja), заструявам impf (zastrujavam)
• оструя pf (ostruja), оструявам impf (ostrujavam) (dialectal)

• “струя (2)”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Nayden Gerov, Тодор Панчев (1904) “струѭ́, -и́шь; -и́лъ”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎^[1] (in Bulgarian), volume 5, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 272

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian струја / struja, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *struja. By surface analysis, deverbal from струяц (strujac).

• IPA^(key): [ˈstruja]
• Rhymes: -uja
• Hyphenation: струя

струя (struja) f (related adjective струйни or струйов)

1. (river) stream, flow

   Synonym: цек (cek)

2. jet, blast, spurt, gush (of fluid)
3. (chiefly of electricity) current, efflux, flow

   зменююца струя ― zmenjujuca struja ― alternating current

   електрична струя ― električna struja ― electric current

4. (by extension, generally uncountable) (electrical) power

   людзе жили без струї аж по двацети вик ― ljudze žili bez struji až po dvaceti vik ― people lived without power all the way up to the twentieth century

• Like in Serbo-Croatian, the general concept of electrical power is expressed using струя (struja), while електрицитет (elektricitet) is a more specialized term used in scientific and engineering contexts. This is different to in other Slavic languages, which tend to use the word for "electricity" for both electricity itself and electrical power, like in English for the most part.

• Medʹeši, H., Fejsa, M., Timko-Djitko, O. (2010) “струя”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Руско-сербски словнїк [Rusyn-Serbian Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy
• Fejsa, M., Šlemender, M., Čelʹovski, S. (2022) “current”, in Анґлийско-руски словнїк [English-Rusyn Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy; Ruska matka, →ISBN, page 74
• Fejsa, M., Šlemender, M., Čelʹovski, S. (2022) “jet”, in Анґлийско-руски словнїк [English-Rusyn Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy; Ruska matka, →ISBN, page 158

Inherited from Old East Slavic струя (struja), from Proto-Slavic *struja.

• IPA^(key): [strʊˈja]

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струя́ • (strujá) f inan (genitive струи́, nominative plural стру́и or струи́^*, genitive plural струй, diminutive стру́йка) (* Poetic.)

1. jet, air blast (stream of fluid)
2. spurt, squirt, stream
3. current, efflux, flow

• пото́к m (potók)

• струища (struišča)
• струйный (strujnyj), пескоструйный (peskostrujnyj), струящий (strujaščij), струя́щийся (strujáščijsja)
• струить (struitʹ), струи́ться (struítʹsja), заструить (zastruitʹ), заструиться (zastruitʹsja), отпескоструить (otpeskostruitʹ)