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Bulgar

Pronunciation: /ˈbʌlɡɑː/

The English word “Bulgar” has 6 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A member of a migratory Turkic people from Central Asia who conquered Moesia in the 7th century and settled what is now Bulgaria, and some of whom then migrated to the Volga basin to establish Volga Bulgaria.
  2. A Bulgarian.

adjective

  1. Of or relating to the Bulgars.

proper noun

  1. The Turkic language of the Bulgar people.
  2. A historical group of Turkic dialects, the only extant member of which is Chuvash.
  3. Bulgarian, the South Slavic language spoken in Bulgaria.

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Bulgarus, from Old Church Slavonic блъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ), itself from the self designation of Turkic Bulgars, from Proto-Turkic *bulgar (“disturber, disturbing”), active noun/adjective of *bulga- (“to create a state of disorder; to stir, to disturb”). Displaced Old English Pulgare in the sense of "a Bulgarian", from the same Latin source. Doublet of bugger.

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