Crossword clues for bulgar
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1759, "inhabitant of Bulgaria" (Bulgarian is attested from 1550s), from Medieval Latin Bulgarus (see Bulgaria).
Wiktionary
a. Of or relating to the Bulgars. n. 1 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga%20Bulgaria. 2 (context rare English) A Bulgarian. n. 1 The Turkic language of the Bulgar people. 2 A historical group of Turkic dialects, the only extant member of which is Chuvash. 3 (context rare English) Bulgarian, the South Slavic language spoken in Bulgaria.
Wikipedia
Bulgar may refer to:
- Bulgars, extinct people of Central Asia
- Bulgar language, the extinct language of the Bulgars
Bulgar may also refer to:
- Bolghar, the capital city of Volga Bulgaria
- Bulgur, a wheat product
- Bulgar (music), a traditional dance, characteristic of klezmer music
Usage examples of "bulgar".
Bulgar Dagh till early August, and it did not reach Aleppo till the beginning of September.
Indeed, there are more recipes for cauliflower than any other vegetable here, because cauliflower is The Great Fooler and makes a terrific substitute for rice, potatoes, and even bulgar wheat or noodles.
The Kletzmatics, but are there really bands called The Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band and The Klez Dispensers?
In May, acting under his orders, Greek troops admitted the Bulgars into Forts Rupel and Dragotin, the keys of the Struma Valley.
The part assigned to the British contingents under General Milne, which had taken over the front from the Vardar eastwards past Doiran and down the Struma to the sea, was the somewhat thankless one of pinning the Bulgars to that sector and preventing them from reinforcing the threatened line in the west.
Waiting only for some turn of events that would break the grip of the ramshackle systems that suppressed them, Balts, Poles, Czechs, Serbs, Greeks, Albanians, Bulgars, Romanians, Kurds, Arabs, Armenians, and a host of other nationalities looked forward eagerly to their day of liberation.
In the north-west the Austrians were pressing on from Ushitza down by the Montenegrin frontier towards Mitrovitza, threatening to crush the Serbians on the Kossovo plateau between them and the Bulgars.
The ambassadors came from Scandia, from Muscovy, from Arabia, from the lands of the Greeks and the Bulgars, from Ukrainia, from Nurnberg and Catalania.
Greek villagers will doubtless be restless and turbulent and unhappy where the Bulgars rule, and the Bulgars will certainly be restless and turbulent and unhappy under Greek administration, and the rival flocks of the Exarchate and Patriarchate will make themselves intensely disagreeable to one another wherever the opportunity offers.
But, to change the venue to the Bulgar and the Basque, have you made up your mind whether you like or dislike women in male habiliments?
Magyar, the Lombard, the Avar, the Bulgar, or the Turk poured his thousands on our frontiers, we drove them back?
It was not difficult to sum them up as three Corsicans, three Germans, three vaguely Balkan faces, Turks, Bulgars, or Yugoslavs, and three obvious Slavs.
So, too, were the multitude of Crusader-noblemen of assorted nationalitiesrenegade Englishmen, Irish, French, Flemings, Burgundians, Scandinavians, Portuguese and Spaniards, Savoyards, Italians, Dalmatians, Croatians, Greeks and Bulgars, even a few Turkish and Egyptian knightsand the handful of tightly disciplined, ebon-skinned, Ghanaian mercenaries whom Papal agents had found for him to hire.
The fuss he made over the marinated beets and bulgar wheat was not to be believed.
Because King Stefan Dushan had overrun Macedonia in the fourteenth century and had made Skopje, in Dame Rebecca's words, "a great city, and there he had been crowned one Easter Sunday Emperor and Autocrat of the Serbs and Byzantines, the Bulgars and the Albanians," the Serbs believed Macedonia to be theirs.