азиатец

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Bulgarian

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Noun

азиа́тец (aziátecm (feminine азиа́тка)

  1. male person from Asia, Asian man or boy
  2. (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.

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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