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Bulgarian

Bulgarian

14 3.7
Connected to Bulgaria, its people, language, or culture
  • adjective
  • /bʌlˈɡɛr.i.ən/
translation icon : búlgaro
  • She cooked a traditional Bulgarian dish for the family gathering.
  • Bulgarian government
  • Bulgarian officer
  • Bulgarian dance

It's cucumber soup with Bulgarian yogurt and cucumber.

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Examples

  • After bilateral talks led nowhere, the Bulgarian government appealed to the League of Nations.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Do not despair, the Bulgarian spirit is alive.

  • But you can practice your Bulgarian and make lots of new friends.

  • When the film is complete, it will be officially provided to Bulgarian television.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Does anybody here speak English with a Bulgarian accent?

  • Who is the Bulgarian bear wrestler who made this?

  • Clearly, the environmental implications of future Bulgarian land use patterns are uncertain.

    Academic text (1995)
  • The growing deterioration of the Bulgarian environment lurked in the background throughout the communist era.

    Academic text (1995)
  • It's a Bulgarian bag, a Bulgary perfume and cute lip balm.

  • Turkey's trade with Bulgaria increased significantly despite the acute problems that the Bulgarian economy faced.

    Academic text (2000)

Synonyms

Slavic
vsBulgarian
12 6.1

About languages or people from Eastern Europe who belong to the same language group

is specific to one country and its culture rather than the whole family
Balkan
vsBulgarian
2 4.5

Relating to southeastern Europe, its people or culture

focuses on one nation's people and language rather than a whole region
Slavonic
vsBulgarian
1 7.4

Relating to languages like Russian, Polish and Czech or to the people who speak them

is limited to a single nation's people and culture rather than the wider group

Compounds

A language spoken mainly in Bulgaria that uses the Cyrillic alphabet

Old Bulgarian
  • Literature
9.9

A very old Slavic language used in the 9th–11th centuries for early Bible translations

9.9

A first Slavic written language used to translate the Bible and church texts in the Middle Ages

Surface Forms

Bulgarian positive

Morphology

Bulgarian = Bulgaria (transparent) = Bulgaria + an

The suffix '-an' is a standard English suffix used to form adjectives of relation, indicating origin or association.

Etymology

Bulgarian comes from the old people called the Bulgars, who gave their name to Bulgaria. So, Bulgarian means 'of or about Bulgaria'.