bulgārs

See also: bulgars, Bulgars, and búlgars

Latvian

Probably via other European languages, ultimately 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”).

bulgārs m (1st declension, feminine form: bulgāriete)

a Bulgarian man, a man born in Bulgaria
(genitive plural) Bulgarian; pertaining to Bulgaria and its people
bulgāru valoda ― the Bulgarian language

bulgāru literatūra ― Bulgarian literature

Declension of bulgārs (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	bulgārs	bulgāri
accusative (akuzatīvs)	bulgāru	bulgārus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	bulgāra	bulgāru
dative (datīvs)	bulgāram	bulgāriem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	bulgāru	bulgāriem
locative (lokatīvs)	bulgārā	bulgāros
vocative (vokatīvs)	bulgār	bulgāri