Bessarabian
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- noun
- /ˌbɛsəˈreɪbiən/
- Many Bessarabians celebrate their cultural heritage with traditional music and dance.
Examples
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She learned about her Bessarabian ancestors through old family photographs and letters.
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Many Bessarabians migrated to other countries after the war.
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The museum featured artifacts donated by a proud Bessarabian who had immigrated decades ago.
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The Bessarabian community has a rich cultural heritage.
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The museum featured artifacts donated by a proud Bessarabian who had immigrated decades ago.
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Many Bessarabians celebrate their cultural heritage with traditional music and dance.
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She learned about her Bessarabian ancestors through old family photographs and letters.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Bessarabian = Bessarabia (transparent) = Bessarabia + ian
The demonymic formation from the place name is standard and yields the noun meaning 'a person from Bessarabia' transparently.
Etymology
Bessarabian originally means a person from Bessarabia, a historic region in Eastern Europe named after the old family Basarab. The ending -ian means 'from' or 'belonging to', so a Bessarabian is someone who comes 'from Bessarabia'.