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Bessarabian

Bessarabian

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Relating to Bessarabia, an old region in Eastern Europe
  • adjective
: besarabiano
  • Cornelia Schlarb analyzes Saxon representations of Bessarabian and Dobrujan Germans.
  • Bessarabian Germans

Examples

  • The festival celebrates Bessarabian culture with music, dance, and local cuisine.

  • The same reports, however, described the Bessarabian and Dobrujan Churches as lacking the antiquity and cultural heritage of the Transylvanian Lutheran Church.

    Academic text (2016)

  • Here were the staunch heroes of the Siege of Moscow, the tank commanders of the Bessarabian offensive, the vanguard of the push to Berlin, each of the four properly wearing an Order of Lenin awarded for "a decisive action that significantly altered the course of the war."

    Fiction book (1992)

  • I love trying the traditional Bessarabian dishes that my grandmother prepares for family gatherings.

  • Many people in the region speak a distinctive Bessarabian dialect of Romanian.

Surface Forms

Bessarabian positive

Morphology

Bessarabian = Bessarabia (transparent) = Bessarabia + an

The suffix '-an' is a common English suffix used to denote belonging or relating to a place.

Etymology

Bessarabian comes from the place name Bessarabia, which was named after an old ruling family called Basarab. The ending -ian means 'from' or 'belonging to', like in Canadian or Italian, so Bessarabian describes something 'from Bessarabia'.