хапка

Deverbal from ха́пя (hápja, “to bite off”) +‎ -ка (-ka).

• IPA^(key): [ˈxapkɐ]

хáпка • (hápka) f (diminutive ха́пчица)

1. bite, chunk (something bitten off)
2. (figurative) small piece, bit

   хапка по хапка (idiom) ― hapka po hapka ― bit by bit, piece by piece

3. (by extension) small meal, snack

   отивам на хапка ― otivam na hapka ― to go have a snack

• уха́пък (uhápǎk, “bite mark”) (dialectal)

• хап (hap, “pill, dose of remedy”) (Arabic loanword, etymologically unrelated)

• “хапка”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “хапка”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Nayden Gerov, Тодор Панчев (1904) “ха́пка”, 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 486

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• IPA^(key): [ˈxapkə]

хáпка • (xápka) f inan (genitive хáпки, nominative plural хáпки, genitive plural хáпк)

1. dose, pull, shot (of a psychoactive substance)

   Synonym: напас (napas)