Bulgar Definition

bulgär, byo͝olgär
noun

Bulgarian.

Webster's New World

Alternative spelling of bulgur.

Wiktionary

A member of the migratory Turkic people from Central Asia which conquered Moesia in the 7th century and settled what is now Bulgaria, and some of whom then migrated to the Volga basin to establish Volga Bulgaria.

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(rare) A Bulgarian.

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adjective
Of or relating to the Bulgars.
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pronoun
The Turkic language of the Bulgar people.
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A historical group of Turkic dialects, the only extant member of which is Chuvash.

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(rare) Bulgarian, the South Slavic language spoken in Bulgaria.

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Origin of Bulgar

  • From a designation Volgar in some language, meaning "Men of the Volga", the river along which the tribe lived until the 6th century.

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  • From Turkic *bulɣar (“of mixed origin”), from *bulɣamak (“to mix”).

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  • From the self-designation in Old Bulgarian, Блугарину (Blugarinu).

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Bulgar Sentence Examples

  • The history, Tarikh Bulgar, said to have been written in the 12th century by an Arabian cadi of the city Bolgari, has not yet been discovered; but the Arabian historians, Ibn Foslan, Ibn Haukal, Abul Hamid Andalusi, Abu Abdallah Harnati, and several others, who had visited the kingdom, beginning with the 10th century, have left descriptions of it.

  • Davis also reported, but did not see, a similar inscription at Bulgar Maden, not far away.

  • Subsequent Bulgarian operations were confined to resisting Turkish attempts to advance from Chatalja; to the occupation of Thrace down to the Sea of Marmora; to resisting an attack on the Bulgar lines across the isthmus of the Gallipoli Peninsula; and to the capture of Adrianople.

  • It attains in Lycia an altitude of 10,500 ft., and in the Bulgar Dagh (Cilicia) of over 10,000 ft.

  • East of the Bulgar Dagh the range is pierced by the Sihun and Jihun rivers, and their tributaries, but its continuity is not broken.

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Words Starting With

BBUBUL

Words Ending With

RARGAR

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Bulgar

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With B6 Letter Words Ending With R