капия

• IPA^(key): [kɐˈpijɐ]

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قاپو (kapı, “door”).

капи́я • (kapíja) f

1. (colloquial, dialectal, archaic) door, gate (typically with a roof above)
2. (backgammon) closed point, made point; a point occupied by two or more checkers, which is impassable for the opponent's checkers
3. (backgammon) any point on the board

Borrowed from Turkish kabı, ezafe of kap (“case, vessel”), as in kılıç kabı (“sabre sheath”), with the graphemic change from ⟨b⟩ to ⟨p⟩ likely due to the influence of sense 1 of the term.

капи́я • (kapíja) f

1. (archaic, dialectal) sheath, scabbard

From капи́ (kapí).

капи́я • (kapíja) f

1. (colloquial) a conically-shaped cultivar of Capsicum annuum

From elision of ⟨х⟩ from кахпи́я (kahpíja, “whore”) — see ку́рва (kúrva).

капи́я • (kapíja) f

1. (colloquial) an interesting, peculiar, and funny person

• “капия”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “капия”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

• пикая (pikaja)