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Bulgarian
Pronunciation
Noun
азиа́тец • (aziátec) m (feminine азиа́тка)
- male person from Asia, Asian man or boy
- (obsolete) savage, barbarian, Philistine
Usage notes
- The obsolete sense of “savage”, etc., was derived from enmity towards Ottoman Turks during the Ottoman occupation of Bulgaria.
Declension
References
- “азиатец”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “азиатец”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
- “азиатец”, in Български тълковен речник [Bulgarian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), fourth edition, Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 2005, page 20