Bulgarian

See also: bulgarian

English

Alternative forms

• (abbreviation): Bulg.

Etymology

From Bulgaria +‎ -an or Bulgar +‎ -ian.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bʌlˈɡɛə.ɹi.ən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bʌlˈɡɛɹi.ən/, /bʊlˈɡɛɹi.ən/

• Audio (US):

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• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /bʊlˈɡɑɹi.ən/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹiən

Adjective

Bulgarian (comparative more Bulgarian, superlative most Bulgarian)

1. Relating to Bulgaria, its people, or the Bulgarian language.
   • 2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     Gary Cahill, a target for Arsenal and Tottenham before the transfer window closed, put England ahead early on and Rooney was on target twice before the interval as the early hostility of the Bulgarian supporters was swiftly subdued.

Derived terms

• Bulgarian Hound
• Bulgarianization
• Bulgarianize
• Bulgarianness
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church
• Bulgarian salad
• Bulgarian split squat

Translations

relating to Bulgaria, its people or the Bulgarian language

• Afrikaans: Bulgaars (af)
• Albanian: bullgar (sq) m, bullgare f
• Arabic: بُلْغَارِيّ (bulḡāriyy)
• Armenian: բուլղարական (hy) (bulġarakan)
• Aromanian: bulgãrescu, vurgãrescu, vãrgãrescu, vãryãrescu (male), bulgãreascã, vurgãreascã, vãrgãreascã, vãryãreascã (female)
• Asturian: búlgaru (ast)
• Azerbaijani: bolqar
• Basque: bulgariar
• Belarusian: балга́рскі (balhárski), баўга́рскі (baŭhárski) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: বুলগেরীয় (bn) (bulgeriẏo)
• Bulgarian: бъ́лгарски (bg) (bǎ́lgarski)
• Burmese: ဘူဂေးရီးယား (bhuge:ri:ya:)
• Carpathian Rusyn: булга́рьскый (bulhárʹskŷj)
• Catalan: búlgar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 保加利亞的 / 保加利亚的 (zh) (Bǎojiālìyà de)

• Czech: bulharský (cs)
• Danish: bulgarsk (da)
• Dutch: Bulgaars (nl)
• Esperanto: bulgara (eo)
• Estonian: bulgaaria
• Faroese: bulgarskur
• Finnish: bulgarialainen (fi), bulgariankielinen
• French: bulgare (fr)
• Friulian: bulgar
• Galician: búlgaro (gl)
• Georgian: ბულგარული (bulgaruli)
• German: bulgarisch (de)
• Greek: βουλγαρικός (el) m (voulgarikós), βουλγάρικος (el) m (voulgárikos)
• Hawaiian: Pulukalia
• Hebrew: בּוּלְגָּרִי
• Hindi: बुल्गारियाई (bulgāriyāī)
• Hungarian: bolgár (hu)
• Icelandic: búlgarskur (is), búlgverskur
• Interlingua: bulgare
• Irish: Bulgárach
• Italian: bulgaro (it)
• Japanese: ブルガリアの (ja) (Burugaria no)
• Kazakh: болгар (bolgar)
• Khmer: ប៊ុលហ្គារី (bulgiərii)
• Korean: 불가리아의 (ko) (bulgariaui)
• Kyrgyz: болгар (bolgar)
• Lao: ບຸນກາຣີ (bun kā rī)
• Latin: bulgaricus
• Latvian: bulgāru, bulgārisks
• Lithuanian: bulgariškas (lt), bulgarų (lt)
• Macedonian: бугарски (bugarski)
• Malay: Bulgaria (ms)
• Maltese: Bulgaru
• Marathi: बल्गेरियन (balgeriyan)
• Mongolian: болгар (bolgar)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bulgarsk (no)

  Nynorsk: bulgarsk (nn)

• Occitan: bulgar (oc)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: блъгарьскъ (blŭgarĭskŭ)

• Old English: Bulgarisċ
• Pashto: بلغاري
• Persian: بلغاری (fa) (bolğâri), بلغار (fa) (bolğâr)
• Polish: bułgarski (pl) m
• Portuguese: búlgaro (pt)
• Romanian: bulgar (ro), bulgăresc (ro)
• Russian: болга́рский (ru) (bolgárskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бу̏гарскӣ

  Roman: bȕgarskī (sh)

• Slovak: bulharský (sk)
• Slovene: bolgárski (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: please add this translation if you can

  Upper Sorbian: bołharski (hsb)

• Spanish: búlgaro (es)
• Swedish: bulgarisk (sv)
• Tagalog: Bulgaro (tl)
• Tajik: булғорӣ (tg) (bulġori)
• Tatar: болгар (tt) (bolgar)
• Telugu: బల్గేరియను (balgēriyanu)
• Thai: บัลแกเรีย (th) (ban-gɛɛ-riia)
• Turkish: Bulgar (tr)
• Turkmen: bolgar
• Ukrainian: болга́рський (uk) (bolhársʹkyj)
• Urdu: بلغاری (bulġārī)
• Uyghur: بۇلغار (bulghar)
• Uzbek: bolgar (uz)
• Vietnamese: Bun-ga-ri
• Yiddish: בולגאַריש (bulgarish)

Noun

Bulgarian (countable and uncountable, plural Bulgarians)

2. (countable) A native of Bulgaria.
   • 2014, Raymond Detrez, Historical Dictionary of Bulgaria, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 305:

     Actually, this ethnic situation—a “macédoine” of peoples—was complicated even more from the 1860s on when some of the Slavs in Macedonia who had always called themselves Bulgarians (and were considered so by most foreign experts) began developing a Macedonian national consciousness.

4. (uncountable) The official language of Bulgaria.
5. (countable, exercise) Ellipsis of Bulgarian split squat.
   • 2020 October 27, Ebenezer Samuel, “These 10 Moves Will Build Monster Quads”, in Men's Health‎^[2]:

     Yes, Bulgarians attack glutes (and this one does too!) but all the pauses and pulses in this series will also exhaust your quads.

Derived terms

• Middle Bulgarian
• Old Bulgarian
• Protobulgarian

Translations

native of Bulgaria

• Afrikaans: Bulgaar (af)
• Albanian: bullgar (sq) m, bullgare f
• Arabic: بُلْغَارِيّ m (bulḡāriyy), بُلْغَارِيَّة (ar) f (bulḡāriyya)
• Armenian: բուլղարացի (bulġaracʻi)
• Aromanian: vurgar, vãrgar, vãryar, bulgar (male), vurgarã, vãrgarã, vãryarã, bulgarã (female)
• Asturian: búlgaru (ast) m, búlgara (ast) f, búlgaros (ast) m pl, búlgares (ast) f pl, búlgaru (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: bolqar
• Basque: bulgariar
• Belarusian: балга́рын m (balháryn), балга́рка f (balhárka), баўга́рын m (baŭháryn), баўга́рка f (baŭhárka) (Taraškievica)
• Bulgarian: бъ́лгарин (bg) m (bǎ́lgarin), бъ́лгарка f (bǎ́lgarka)
• Catalan: búlgar (ca) m, búlgara (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 保加利亞人 / 保加利亚人 (bǎojiālìyǎrén)

• Czech: Bulhar (cs) m, Bulharka (cs) f
• Danish: Bulgarer, Bulgarere pl
• Dutch: Bulgaar (nl) m, Bulgaarse (nl) f
• Estonian: bulgaarlane
• Faroese: bulgari m
• Finnish: bulgarialainen (fi)
• French: Bulgare (fr)
• Galician: búlgaro (gl) m
• Georgian: ბულგარელი (ka) (bulgareli)
• German: Bulgare (de) m, Bulgarin (de) f
• Greek: Βούλγαρος (el) m (Voúlgaros), Βουλγάρα (el) f (Voulgára)
• Hawaiian: Pulukalia
• Hungarian: bolgár (hu)
• Icelandic: Búlgari m, Búlgarar m pl
• Interlingua: bulgaro (ia) m, bulgara f
• Irish: Bulgárach m
• Italian: bulgaro (it) m, bulgara (it) f
• Japanese: ブルガリア人 (ja) (ブルガリアじん, burugariajin)
• Kazakh: бұлғар (būlğar)
• Khmer: ប៊ុលហ្គារី (bulgiərii)
• Korean: 불가리아인 (ko) (bulgariain), 불가리아 사람 (bulgaria saram)
• Kyrgyz: болгар (bolgar)
• Latvian: bulgārs m, bulgāriete f
• Lithuanian: bulgaras (lt) m, bulgarė (lt) f
• Macedonian: Бугарин m (Bugarin), Бугарка f (Bugarka)
• Malay: orang Bulgaria
• Maltese: Bulgaru m, Bulgara f
• Marathi: बल्गेरियन (balgeriyan)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bulgarer m

  Nynorsk: bulgar (nn) m, bulgarar (nn) m

• Persian: بلغاری (fa) (bolğâri), بلغار (fa) (bolğâr)
• Polish: Bułgar (pl) m pers, Bułgarka (pl) f; (archaic) Bułgarzyn m pers
• Portuguese: búlgaro (pt) m, búlgara f
• Romanian: bulgar (ro) m, bulgăroaică (ro) f, bulgară (ro) f
• Russian: болга́рин (ru) m (bolgárin), болга́рка (ru) f (bolgárka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бугарин m, бугаркиња f, бугарка f

  Roman: bugarin m, bugarkinja f, bugarka (sh) f

• Slovak: Bulhar (sk) m, Bulharka (sk) f
• Slovene: Bolgár (sl) m, Bolgárka f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Bulgaŕ m

  Upper Sorbian: Bołhar m

• Spanish: búlgaro (es) m, búlgara (es) f
• Swedish: bulgar (sv), bulgariska (sv)
• Tagalog: Bulgaro (tl)
• Tajik: булғор (bulġor)
• Tatar: болгар (tt) (bolgar)
• Telugu: బల్గేరియను (balgēriyanu)
• Turkish: Bulgar (tr), Bulgaristanlı
• Turkmen: bolgar
• Ukrainian: болга́рин (uk) m (bolháryn), болга́рка f (bolhárka)
• Uyghur: بۇلغار (bulghar)
• Uzbek: bolgar (uz)
• Vietnamese: người Bun-ga-ri

language

• Afrikaans: Bulgaars (af)
• Albanian: gjuha bullgare, bullgarisht (sq)
• Amharic: ቡልጋሪኛ (bulgariña)
• Arabic: بُلْغَارِيّ m (bulḡāriyy)
• Armenian: բուլղարերեն (hy) (bulġareren)
• Asturian: búlgaru (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: bolqar
• Basque: bulgariera (eu)
• Belarusian: балга́рская мо́ва f (balhárskaja móva), балга́рская (be) f (balhárskaja), баўга́рская f (baŭhárskaja)
• Breton: bulgareg (br)
• Bulgarian: бъ́лгарски ези́к m (bǎ́lgarski ezík), бъ́лгарски (bg) m (bǎ́lgarski)
• Catalan: búlgar (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏉᎸᎦᎵ (quolvgali)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 保加利亞語 / 保加利亚语 (zh) (bǎojiālìyǎyǔ)

• Cornish: Bulgarek
• Czech: bulharština (cs)
• Danish: bulgarsk (da)
• Dutch: Bulgaars (nl) n
• Esperanto: bulgara lingvo
• Estonian: bulgaaria keel
• Faroese: bulgarskt (fo) n
• Finnish: bulgaria (fi), bulgarian kieli
• French: bulgare (fr) m
• Galician: búlgaro (gl) m
• Georgian: ბულგარული (bulgaruli), ბულგარული ენა (bulgaruli ena)
• German: Bulgarisch (de) n
• Greek: βουλγαρικά (el) n pl (voulgariká)
• Hebrew: בולגרית f (bulgarít)
• Hindi: बुलगारी (bulgārī)
• Hungarian: bolgár (hu)
• Icelandic: búlgarska (is), búlgverska f
• Indonesian: bahasa Bulgaria (id)
• Interlingua: bulgaro (ia)
• Irish: Bulgáiris f
• Italian: bulgaro (it) m
• Japanese: ブルガリア語 (ja) (ブルガリアご, burugariago)
• Khmer: ប៊ុលហ្គារី (bulgiərii)
• Korean: 불가리아어 (ko) (bulgaria'eo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Bulgarî, Bilgarî

• Latin: lingua Bulgarica
• Latvian: bulgāru, bulgāru valoda f
• Limburgish: Bölgaars (li), Bölgersj n
• Lithuanian: bulgarų (lt), bulgariškai
• Macedonian: бугарски m (bugarski)
• Malay: bahasa Bulgaria
• Maltese: il-Bulgaru
• Marathi: बल्गेरियन f (balgeriyan)
• Moksha: булгаронь (bulgaroń)
• Mongolian: болгар хэл (bolgar xel)
• Navajo: Bálgaa bizaad
• Nepali: बुल्गेरियाली (bulgeriyālī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bulgarsk (no) m

  Nynorsk: bulgarsk (nn) m

• Occitan: bulgar (oc) m
• Persian: بلغاری (fa) (bolğâri)
• Polish: (język) bułgarski (pl) m
• Portuguese: búlgaro (pt) m
• Romanian: bulgară (ro) f, limba bulgară f
• Russian: болга́рский (ru) m (bolgárskij) (язы́к)
• Scots: Bulgarie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бугарски m

  Roman: bugarski (sh) m

• Slovak: bulharčina (sk) f
• Slovene: bolgárščina (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower: bulgaršćina f

  Upper: bołharšćina f

• Spanish: búlgaro (es) m
• Swahili: Kibulgaria
• Swedish: bulgariska (sv)
• Tagalog: wikang Bulgaro
• Tajik: булғорӣ (tg) (bulġori)
• Telugu: బల్గేరియను (balgēriyanu)
• Thai: ภาษาบัลแกเรีย (paa-sǎa ban-gɛɛ-riia)
• Tigrinya: ቡልጋሪኛ (bulgariña)
• Turkish: Bulgarca (tr)
• Ukrainian: болга́рська мо́ва f (bolhársʹka móva), болга́рська (uk) f (bolhársʹka)
• Urdu: بلغاری f (bulġārī)
• Uzbek: bolgar (uz), bolgarcha (uz)
• Vietnamese: tiếng Bun-ga-ri
• Walloon: bulgåre
• Welsh: Bwlgaraidd
• West Frisian: Bulgaarsk (fy)
• Yiddish: בולגאַריש n (bulgarish)

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Bulgarian terms
• Appendix:Bulgarian Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Bulgarian

Further reading

• Bulgarian–English Dictionary: from Webster’s Dictionary — the Rosetta Edition.
• ISO 639-1 code bg, ISO 639-3 code bul (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Bulgarian, bul ⁠

Anagrams

• biangular

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bulɡaɾian/ [bul.ɣ̞a.ɾi.ãn]
• Rhymes: -ian, -an
• Hyphenation: Bul‧ga‧ri‧an

Proper noun

Bulgarian

1. inessive indefinite of Bulgaria

Finnish

Proper noun

Bulgarian

1. genitive singular of Bulgaria