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English
Noun
bulga (countable and uncountable, plural bulgas)
- Misspelling of bulgur.
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Gaulish bolgā, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos.
Pronunciation
Noun
bulga f (genitive bulgae); first declension
- knapsack, wallet, satchel
- wallet, purse
- (informal) womb
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “bulga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- bulga in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- bulga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “bulga”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “bulga”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Whatmough, Joshua (1950) The Dialects of Ancient Gaul, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, published 1970, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1185