بلغور
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]By metathesis from برغول (burgûl), from Arabic بُرْغُل (burḡul), ultimately from Persian برغول (barğul), پرغول (parğul).[1][2]
Noun
[edit]بلغور • (bulğur)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: bulgur
- → Armenian: բլղուր (blġur)
- → English: bulgur
- → French: boulghour
- → Georgian: ბურღული (burɣuli)
- → Greek: πλιγούρι (pligoúri)
- → Laz: ბურღული (burğuli), ბუღური (buğuri)
- → Romanian: bulgur
References
[edit]- ^ bulgur in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bulgur”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بلغور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian