بلغور

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

By metathesis from برغول (burgûl), from Arabic بُرْغُل (burḡul), ultimately from Persian برغول (barğul), پرغول (parğul).

Noun

بلغور • (bulğur)

1. bulgur
2. graupel

Descendants

• Turkish: bulgur
• → Armenian: բլղուր (blġur)
• → English: bulgur
• → French: boulghour
• → Georgian: ბურღული (burɣuli)
• → Greek: πλιγούρι (pligoúri)
• → Laz: ბურღული (burğuli), ბუღური (buğuri)
• → Romanian: bulgur

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بلغور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian