bulgur
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
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
Noun
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, 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
Middle Eastern food
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References
- ^ "bulgur." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2008.
- ^ bulgur in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
bulgur
Declension
| 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
Romanian
Etymology
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
bulgur n (uncountable)
Declension
| singular only | indefinite | definite |
|---|---|---|
| nominative-accusative | bulgur | bulgurul |
| genitive-dative | bulgur | bulgurului |
| vocative | bulgurule | |
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Turkish bulgur (“bruised grain”).
Noun
bulgur m (plural bulgures)
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish بورغول (burğul), بلغور (bulğur), from Arabic بُرْغُل (burḡul).
Pronunciation
Noun
bulgur (definite accusative bulguru, plural bulgurlar)
Declension
Further reading
- “bulgur”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.