bulgur

• bulgar, bulghur, burghul, bourghul, bulgoor, bulghoor

From Ottoman Turkish بلغور (bulğur) (modern Turkish bulgur),^[1] by metathesis from older بورغول (burğul), from Arabic بُرْغُل (burḡul), from Persian برغول (barġul), پرغول (parġul).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌlɡə(ɹ)/, /ˈbʊlɡə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -ʌlɡə(ɹ), -ʊlɡə(ɹ)

bulgur (countable and uncountable, plural bulgurs)

1. Wheat grains that have been steamed, dried, and crushed; a staple of Middle Eastern cooking.

   Synonym: bulgur wheat

   • 1961, Frederic R. Senti, W. Dayton Maclay, “Age-Old Uses of Seeds and Some New Ones”, in Yearbook of Agriculture‎^[1], The United States Department of Agriculture, page 31:

     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.

From Turkish bulgur.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulɡur/, [ˈbulɡur]
• Rhymes: -ulɡur
• Syllabification^(key): bul‧gur
• Hyphenation^(key): bul‧gur

bulgur

1. bulgur

• bulgurvehnä

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

bulgur n (uncountable)

1. (Moldavia (region), Muntenia) bulgur

Borrowed from Turkish bulgur (“bruised grain”).

• IPA^(key): /bulˈɡuɾ/ [bulˈɣ̞uɾ]
• Rhymes: -uɾ
• Syllabification: bul‧gur

bulgur m (plural bulgures)

1. bulgur

From Ottoman Turkish بورغول (burğul), بلغور (bulğur), from Arabic بُرْغُل (burḡul).

• IPA^(key): /buɫ.ˈɡuɾ/
• Hyphenation: bul‧gur

bulgur (definite accusative bulguru, plural bulgurlar)

1. bulgur

• “bulgur”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.