bulgārs

See also: bulgars, Bulgars, and búlgars

Latvian

Etymology

Probably via other European languages, ultimately from Medieval Latin Bulgarus, from Old Church Slavonic блъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ), itself from the self-designation of Turkic Bulgars, from Proto-Turkic *bulgar (“disturber, disturbing”), active noun/adjective of *bulga- (“to create a state of disorder; to stir, to disturb”).

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Noun

bulgārs m (1st declension, feminine form: bulgāriete)

1. a Bulgarian man, a man born in Bulgaria
2. (genitive plural) Bulgarian; pertaining to Bulgaria and its people

   bulgāru valoda ― the Bulgarian language

   bulgāru literatūra ― Bulgarian literature

Declension

Declension of bulgārs (1st declension)

	singular	plural
nominative	bulgārs	bulgāri
genitive	bulgāra	bulgāru
dative	bulgāram	bulgāriem
accusative	bulgāru	bulgārus
instrumental	bulgāru	bulgāriem
locative	bulgārā	bulgāros
vocative	bulgār	bulgāri

Related terms

• Bulgārija
• bulgārisks
• bulgāru valoda