The article is dedicated on the words expressing slander in 232 villages in Rhodopian Dialects. The collected linguistic material is taken from the questionnaire for the Rhodopian Dialect Atlas and the Archive for Bulgarian Dialect Dictionary. The article presents the words (бед’а, клеват’а, клеп’a) and the idioms (прав’а манафлък, згадам клеп) expressing slander – their origin and their distribution. It also analyzes the other meanings of the words expressing slander in the Bulgarian dialects.
Key words: slander, dialects, Rhodopian dialects.
