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Bulgarian, a. and n.|bʌlˈgɛərɪən|
[f. med.L. Bulgaria, f. Bulgarus: see prec. and -ian.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the ancient Bulgars or to Bulgaria, a country in the Balkans.
B. n.
a. Any member of the Bulgarian people; a native of Bulgaria; a Bulgar.
b. The language of Bulgaria. Old Bulgarian: the oldest extant form of the Slavonic group of languages, also called Old Slavonic, Church Slavic or Slavonic (G. kirchslavisch).
1555R. Eden tr. P. Martyr's Decades f. 289v The Slauon tounge..vsed of..the Mysians, Seruians, Bulgarians. 1797Encycl. Brit. III. 769/1 The Bulgarians anciently inhabited the plains of Sarmatia that extended along the banks of the Volga. Ibid., Bulgarian Language, the same with the Sclavonic. 1861Chambers's Encycl. II. 418/2 The Bulgarian Language is divided into two dialects—Old Bulgarian and New Bulgarian; the former, the richest and best of the Slavonic dialects. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey I. 182 Even the priest, a Bulgarian, did not know a word of Greek. Ibid. 199 Children are taught to read and write both Greek and Bulgarian. 1959J. Chapin tr. Giovannetti's We Have a Pope ii. 33 He delivered part of his Christmas sermon in Bulgarian. 1964P. F. Anson Bishops at Large x. 469 Brother Michael, Bulgarian-born superior of the White Brotherhood.
So Bulgaric |bʌlˈgærɪk|, a., of or pertaining to the ancient Bulgars or their modern representatives; n., the language of the ancient Bulgars. ˈBulgaro-, comb. form of Bulgar, Bulgaria, or Bulgarian, as in Bulgaro-Wallachian adj., Bulgarophil(e, -philism, -phobe.
1880Encycl. Brit. XI. 119/1 The Bulgaro-Wallachian kingdom. 1888Ibid. XXIV. 269/2 The Bulgaro-Vlach Empire. 1917Observer 15 Apr. 4/2 The war of 1912 made us Bulgarophil; the war of today makes us—with much better reason—Bulgarophobe. 1921Glasgow Herald 30 Dec. 6 His passionate Bulgarophilism. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Mar. 218/3 Bulgarophil, pro-Turk or Serbophil. 1949I. Deutscher Stalin vii. 243 An aristocratic revolutionary Bulgaro-Rumanian family. |