Bulgaria

See also: bulgaria, Bulgária, Búlgaría, Bulgarìa, Bulgària, and Bułgaria

English

Bulgaria (in dark green) within Europe.

Etymology

Medieval Latin Bulgaria, equivalent to Bulgar +‎ -ia, in English used from the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bʌlˈɡɛə.ɹi.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bʌlˈɡɛɹ.i.ə/, /bʊlˈɡɛɹ.i.ə/

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Proper noun

Bulgaria

2. A country in Southeastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Bulgaria

Derived terms

• Bulgarian

Translations

country

• Abkhaz: Былгариа (Bəlgarja), Болгартәыла (Bolgartʷʼəla)
• Acehnese: Bulgaria
• Adyghe: Булгарие (Bulɣaariije)
• Afrikaans: Bulgarye
• Albanian: Bullgari f (indefinite), Bullgaria (sq) f, (definite)
• Amharic: ቡልጋሪያ (bulgariya)
• Arabic: بُلْغَارِيَا‎ f (bulḡāriyā), بَلْغَارْيَا‎ f (balḡāryā)

  Hijazi Arabic: بَلغاريا‎ f (balḡārya, balgārya), بُلغاريا‎ f (bulḡārya, bulgārya)

• Armenian: Բուլղարիա (hy) (Bulłaria)
• Aromanian: Vurgarii f (indefinite), Vurgaria f (definite), Vurgãrii f (indefinite), Vurgãria f (definite), Vãryãrii f (indefinite), Vãryãria f (definite)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܘܼܠܓܵܪܝܼܵܐ‎ f (bulgariya)
• Asturian: Bulgaria (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Bolqarıstan (az)
• Bashkir: Болгария (Bolgariya)
• Basque: Bulgaria (eu)
• Belarusian: Балга́рыя f (Balháryja), Баўга́рыя f (Baŭháryja)
• Bengali: বুলগেরিয়া (bn) (bulgeriẏa)
• Breton: Bulgaria (br)
• Bulgarian: Бълга́рия (bg) f (Bǎlgárija)
• Burmese: ဘူဂေးရီးယား (bhuge:ri:ya:)
• Catalan: Bulgària (ca) f
• Chechen: Болгари (Bolgari)
• Cherokee: ᏊᎵᎨᎵᎠ (quuligelia)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 保加利亞／保加利亚 (bou² gaa¹ lei⁶ aa³)

  Mandarin: 保加利亞／保加利亚 (zh) (Bǎojiālìyà)

• Chuvash: Болгари (Bolgari), Пӑлхарӗ (Pălh̬arĕ)
• Crimean Tatar: Bulğaristan
• Czech: Bulharsko (cs) n
• Danish: Bulgarien (da)
• Dhivehi: ބަލްގޭރިއާ‎ (dv) (balgēriā)
• Dutch: Bulgarije (nl)
• Esperanto: Bulgario, Bulgarujo
• Estonian: Bulgaaria (et)
• Faroese: Bulgaria n
• Finnish: Bulgaria (fi)
• French: Bulgarie (fr) f
• Galician: Bulgaria (gl) f
• Georgian: ბულგარეთი (ka) (bulgareti)
• German: Bulgarien (de) n
• Greek: Βουλγαρία (el) f (Voulgaría)

  Ancient: please add this translation if you can

• Hausa: Bulgeriya
• Hawaiian: Pulukalia
• Hebrew: בּוּלְגַּרְיָה‎ (he) f (bulgarya)
• Hindi: बुल्गारिया (hi) (bulgāriyā)
• Hungarian: Bulgária (hu)
• Icelandic: Búlgaría (is) f
• Ido: Bulgaria (io)
• Igbo: Bulgaria
• Indonesian: Bulgaria (id)
• Interlingua: Bulgaria (ia)
• Irish: An Bhulgáir f, Poblacht na Bulgáire f
• Italian: Bulgaria (it) f
• Japanese: ブルガリア (ja) (Burugaria)
• Kalenjin: Bulgaria
• Kamba: Bulgaria
• Karakalpak: Bolgariya
• Kazakh: Болғария (Bolğariä), Бұлғарстан (Būlğarstan), Бұлғария (Būlğariä), Болгария (Bolgariä)
• Khmer: ប៊ុលហ្គារី (bulgiərii)
• Kikuyu: Bulgaria
• Korean: 불가리아 (ko) (Bulgaria), 벌가리아 (ko) (Beolgaria) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: Болгария (ky) (Bolgariya)
• Ladin: please add this translation if you can
• Ladino: Bulgaria
• Lao: ບຸນກາຣີ (bun kā rī)
• Latvian: Bulgārija f
• Limburgish: Bölgerië
• Lithuanian: Bulgarija (lt) f
• Livonian: Bulgārij
• Luhya: Bulgaria
• Luo: Bulgaria
• Macedonian: Бугарија (mk) f (Bugarija)
• Malay: Bulgaria
• Maltese: il-Bulgarija
• Manx: Yn Vulgeyr f
• Maori: Purukāria
• Meru: Bulgaria
• Mongolian: Болгар (Bolgar)
• Navajo: Ditsʼozí Daʼalzhishii Bikéyah
• Norman: Bulgarie f
• Northern Sami: Bulgária
• Norwegian: Bulgaria (no)

  Bokmål: Bulgaria (no) n

  Nynorsk: Bulgaria (nn) n

• Occitan: Bulgaria f
• Old Norse: Bolgaraland n
• Ossetian: Болгари (Bolgari)
• Pashto: بلغاريه‎ (ps) f (bulǧāryá), بلغاريا‎ f (bolǧāryã), بلغارستان‎ m (bolǧāristãn)
• Persian: بلغارستان‎ (fa) (bolğârestân)
• Polish: Bułgaria (pl) f
• Portuguese: Bulgária (pt) f
• Quechua: Bulgarya
• Romanian: Bulgaria (ro) f
• Russian: Болга́рия (ru) f (Bolgárija)
• Rusyn: Булга́рія f (Bulhárija)
• Scots: Bulgarie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бу̏гарска f

  Roman: Bȕgarska (sh) f

• Sicilian: Bulgarìa f
• Silesian: Bułgaryjo f
• Sinhalese: බල්‍ගේරියාව (balgēriyāwa)
• Slovak: Bulharsko (sk) n
• Slovene: Bolgárija (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Bulgarska f

  Upper Sorbian: Bołharska f

• Spanish: Bulgaria (es) f
• Swahili: Bulgaria (sw)
• Swedish: Bulgarien (sv)
• Tagalog: Bulgarya
• Tajik: Булғористон (Bulġoriston)
• Tatar: Болгария (tt) (Bolgariya)
• Thai: บัลแกเรีย (th) (ban-gɛɛ-riia)
• Tibetan: པུ་ར་ག་རི་ཡ (pu ra ga ri ya)
• Tigrinya: ቡልጋርያ (bulgarya)
• Turkish: Bulgaristan (tr)
• Turkmen: Bolgariýa
• Ubykh: Былгаршәабла (Bəlgarŝʷabla)
• Ukrainian: Болга́рія (uk) f (Bolhárija), Болґа́рія f (Bolgárija) (rare), Болга́рщина f (Bolhárščyna)
• Urdu: بلغاریہ‎ (bulġāriyâ)
• Uyghur: بۇلغارىيە‎ (bulghariye)
• Uzbek: Bolgariya (uz)
• Veps: Bolgarii
• Vietnamese: Bun-ga-ri
• Volapük: Bulgarän (vo)
• Votic: please add this translation if you can
• Võro: Bulgaaria
• Yakut: Болгария (Bolgariya)
• Yiddish: בולגאַריע‎ f (bulgarye)
• Yoruba: Bùùgáríà
• Zazaki: Bulğarıstan (diq) (Southern Zazaki)

See also

• (countries of Europe) country of Europe; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City

Acehnese

Proper noun

Bulgaria

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bulˈɡaɾja/, [bulˈɣ̞a.ɾja]

Proper noun

Bulgaria f

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• búlgaru

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bulɡaɾia/, [bul.ɣ̞a.ɾi.a]

Proper noun

Bulgaria inan

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

Declension

Declension of Bulgaria (inanimate, ending in -a)
	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	Bulgaria	—	—
ergative	Bulgariak	—	—
dative	Bulgariari	—	—
genitive	Bulgariaren	—	—
comitative	Bulgariarekin	—	—
causative	Bulgariarengatik	—	—
benefactive	Bulgariarentzat	—	—
instrumental	Bulgariaz	—	—
inessive	Bulgarian	—	—
locative	Bulgariako	—	—
allative	Bulgariara	—	—
terminative	Bulgariaraino	—	—
directive	Bulgariarantz	—	—
destinative	Bulgariarako	—	—
ablative	Bulgariatik	—	—
partitive	Bulgariarik	—	—
prolative	Bulgariatzat	—	—

Derived terms

• bulgariar
• bulgariera

Central Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Bulgaria.

Proper noun

Bulgaria

1. Bulgaria

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pʊlˈkaːri.a]

Proper noun

Bulgaria n

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

Declension

Declension of Bulgaria (singular only)
n1s	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	Bulgaria	Bulgariað
accusative	Bulgaria	Bulgariað
dative	Bulgaria	Bulgarianum
genitive	Bulgaria	Bulgarians

Finnish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Bulgaria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulɡɑ(ː)riɑ/, [ˈbulɡɑ(ː)ˌriɑ]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): bul‧ga‧ri‧a

Proper noun

Bulgaria

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

Declension

Inflection of Bulgaria (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Bulgaria	—
genitive		Bulgarian	—
partitive		Bulgariaa	—
illative		Bulgariaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Bulgaria	—
accusative	nom.	Bulgaria	—
	gen.	Bulgarian
genitive		Bulgarian	—
partitive		Bulgariaa	—
inessive		Bulgariassa	—
elative		Bulgariasta	—
illative		Bulgariaan	—
adessive		Bulgarialla	—
ablative		Bulgarialta	—
allative		Bulgarialle	—
essive		Bulgariana	—
translative		Bulgariaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Bulgariatta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Bulgaria (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Bulgariani	Bulgariamme
2nd person	Bulgariasi	Bulgarianne
3rd person	Bulgariansa

Anagrams

• bulgaari

Galician

Alternative forms

• Bulgária (reintegrationist)

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Bulgaria f

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• búlgaro

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bulˈɡari̯a/

Proper noun

Bulgaria

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

See also

• (countries of Europe) lando di Europa; Albania, Andora, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bielorusia, Belgia, Bosnia e Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kroatia, Chipro, Chekia, Dania, Estonia, Finlando, Francia, Gruzia, Germania, Grekia, Hungaria, Islando, Irlando, Italia, Kazakstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lituania, Luxemburgia, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monako, Montenegro, Nederlando, Norvegia, Polonia, Portugal, Rumania, Rusia, San-Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hispania, Suedia, Suisia, Turkia, Ukraina, Unionita Rejio, Vatikano

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin Bulgaria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʊlˈɡaria̯/
• Rhymes: -ria̯, -ia̯, -a
• Hyphenation: Bul‧ga‧ria

Proper noun

Bulgaria

2. Bulgaria: A country in Southeastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Bulgaria

Adjective

Bulgaria

1. Bulgarian

See also

• (countries of Europe) negara-negara di Eropa; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belanda, Belarus, Belgia, Bosnia dan Herzegovina, Britania Raya, Bulgaria, Ceko, Denmark, Estonia, Finlandia, Georgia, Hongaria, Irlandia, Islandia, Italia, Jerman, Kazakhstan, Kroasia, Latvia, Listenstaina, Lituania, Luksemburg, Makedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monako, Montenegro, Norwegia, Perancis, Polandia, Portugal, Rumania, Rusia, San Marino, Serbia, Siprus, Slovenia, Slowakia, Spanyol, Swedia, Swiss, Turki, Ukraina, Yunani, Vatikan

Further reading

• “Bulgaria” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bul.ɡaˈri.a/

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• Rhymes: -ia
• Syllabification: Bul‧ga‧rì‧a

Proper noun

Bulgaria f

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• bulgaro

Latin

Etymology

Medieval Latin

Proper noun

Bulgaria f sg (genitive Bulgariae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin, New Latin) Bulgaria

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Bulgaria
Genitive	Bulgariae
Dative	Bulgariae
Accusative	Bulgariam
Ablative	Bulgariā
Vocative	Bulgaria

Related terms

• Bulgarus (adjective)
  • Bulgari m pl

Descendants

• ⇒ Georgian: ბულგარეთი (bulgareti)

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Bulgaria

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• bulgarer
• bulgarsk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Bulgaria

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• bulgar, bulgarar
• bulgarsk

Occitan

Proper noun

Bulgaria f

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• bulgar

Romanian

Etymology

From bulgar +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bulˈɡa.rja/

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Proper noun

Bulgaria f

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• bulgară
• bulgăresc

Sardinian

Proper noun

Bulgaria ?

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bulˈɡaɾja/ [bulˈɣ̞a.ɾja]

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• Rhymes: -aɾja
• Syllabification: Bul‧ga‧ria

Proper noun

Bulgaria f

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• búlgaro, búlgara