плячка

Bulgarian

Etymology

Per the Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary (BED), this is a Balkan word that's probably a Greek-Albanian-Bulgarian hybrid. BED derives it from the stem πλακ- (plak-) of Greek πλακώνω (plakóno, “to crush, to press; to attack by surprise”), whence also Albanian pllakos and Aromanian aplucusescu.

Balkan cognates include Serbo-Croatian пљачка, Macedonian пљачка (pljačka), Albanian plaçkë, Greek πλιάτσικο (pliátsiko), Turkish plaçka and Romanian pleașcă. The latter is borrowed from Bulgarian, and according to some of the sources quoted in BED, it's possible that so is the Albanian word.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈplʲa̟t͡ʃkɐ]

Noun

пля́чка • (pljáčka) f

plunder, loot, booty (spoils of battle)

Declension

Declension of пля́чка

	singular	plural
indefinite	пля́чка pljáčka	пля́чки pljáčki
definite	пля́чката pljáčkata	пля́чките pljáčkite

Derived terms

плячко́свам (pljačkósvam, “to loot”)

Descendants

→ Romanian: pleașcă

References

“плячка”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
“плячка”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “плячка”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 392