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bulgur en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈbʊlɡə(ɹ)/
• /ˈbʌlɡə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بلغور (bulğur) (modern Turkish bulgur), by metathesis from older بورغول (burğul), from Arabic بُرْغُل (burḡul), from Persian برغول (barġul), پرغول (parġul).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Wheat grains that have been steamed, dried, and crushed; a staple of Middle Eastern cooking.
   • Before man baked bread, he made bulgur by parboiling wheat and spreading it out in the sun to dry. […] Every household in the Near East prepared a year's store of bulgur in the fall after the wheat harvest. 1961, Frederic R. Senti, W. Dayton Maclay, “Age-Old Uses of Seeds and Some New Ones”, in Yearbook of Agriculture, The United States Department of Agriculture, page 31:

Forms

Synonyms

bulgur wheat

Translations (33)

kmr savar (Middle Eastern food) · bew bulgur (Middle Eastern food) · fa بلغور (Middle Eastern food) · fr boulghour (Middle Eastern food) · el πουρκούρι (Middle Eastern food) · hy բլղուր (Middle Eastern food) · el πουργούρι (Middle Eastern food) · ar بُرْغُل (Middle Eastern food) · fi bulgur (Middle Eastern food) · la purgurium (Middle Eastern food) · ckb ساوار (Middle Eastern food) · ca bulgur (Middle Eastern food) · pt bulgur (Middle Eastern food) · hy ձավար (Middle Eastern food) · bg булгур (Middle Eastern food) · pt triguilho (Middle Eastern food) · fr boulgour (Middle Eastern food) · sq bollgur (Middle Eastern food) · aii ܓܘܼܪܓܘܼܪ (Middle Eastern food) · fi bulgurvehnä (Middle Eastern food) · az bulqur (Middle Eastern food) · hu bulgur (Middle Eastern food) · tr bulgur (Middle Eastern food) · ca búrgul (Middle Eastern food) · ru булгу́р (Middle Eastern food) · pl bulgur (Middle Eastern food) · es bulgur (Middle Eastern food) · el πλιγούρι (Middle Eastern food) · oc bolgor (Middle Eastern food) · sv bulgur (Middle Eastern food) · pt burghul (Middle Eastern food) · sh bulgur (Middle Eastern food) · es burghul (Middle Eastern food)