bulgur
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish بلغور (bulğur) (modern Turkish bulgur),[1] by metathesis from older بورغول (burğul), from Arabic بُرْغُل (burḡul), from Persian برغول (barğul), پرغول (parğul).[2]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bulgur (countable and uncountable, plural bulgurs)
- Wheat grains that have been steamed, dried, and crushed; a staple of Middle Eastern cooking.
- Synonym: bulgur wheat
- 1961, Frederic R. Senti, W. Dayton Maclay, “Age-Old Uses of Seeds and Some New Ones”, in Yearbook of Agriculture[1], The United States Department of Agriculture, page 31:
- Before man baked bread, he made bulgur by parboiling wheat and spreading it out in the sun to dry. […] Every household in the Near East prepared a year's store of bulgur in the fall after the wheat harvest.
Translations edit
Middle Eastern food
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References edit
- ^ "bulgur." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2008.
- ^ bulgur in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bulgur
Declension edit
Inflection of bulgur (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | bulgur | — | ||
genitive | bulgurin | — | ||
partitive | bulguria | — | ||
illative | bulguriin | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | bulgur | — | ||
accusative | nom. | bulgur | — | |
gen. | bulgurin | |||
genitive | bulgurin | — | ||
partitive | bulguria | — | ||
inessive | bulgurissa | — | ||
elative | bulgurista | — | ||
illative | bulguriin | — | ||
adessive | bulgurilla | — | ||
ablative | bulgurilta | — | ||
allative | bulgurille | — | ||
essive | bulgurina | — | ||
translative | bulguriksi | — | ||
abessive | bulguritta | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Synonyms edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بلغور (bulğur) (modern Turkish bulgur), by metathesis from older بورغول (burğul), from Arabic بُرْغُل (burḡul), from Persian برغول (barğul), پرغول (parğul).
Noun edit
bulgur n (uncountable)
Declension edit
declension of bulgur (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) bulgur | bulgurul |
genitive/dative | (unui) bulgur | bulgurului |
vocative | bulgurule |
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Turkish bulgur (“bruised grain”).
Noun edit
bulgur m (plural bulgures)
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish بورغول (burğul), بلغور (bulğur), from Arabic بُرْغُل (burḡul).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bulgur (definite accusative bulguru, plural bulgurlar)
Declension edit
Further reading edit
- “bulgur”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.