Meanings
Bulgarism1
nounBulgarism (countable and uncountable, plural Bulgarisms)
plural Bulgarisms
- countablerhetoricuncountableA Bulgarian idiom or turn of phrase.
Bulgarisms in Church Slavonic texts
Bulgarism2
nounBulgarism (countable and uncountable, plural Bulgarisms)
plural Bulgarisms
- countableuncountableAn ethnonationalist ideology centered upon the revival of the Volga Bulgar identity (of which the modern Tatar, Bashkir, and Chuvash people are considered descendants).
Origin
Bulgarism · noun
- Proto-Turkic*bulga-
- Proto-Turkic*bulgar
- Old Turkic𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰍𐰀 (b¹wl¹g¹a)
- Old Church Slavonicблъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ)
- Medieval LatinBulgarus
- EnglishBulgar
- EnglishBulgaria
- EnglishBulgarism
Bulgarism · noun
- Russianбулга́р (bulgár)
- RussianБулгари́зм (Bulgarízm)
- EnglishBulgarism
Borrowed from Russian Булгари́зм (Bulgarízm). By surface analysis, Bulgar + -ism.
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APA
Bulgarism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bulgarism
MLA
“Bulgarism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bulgarism. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Bulgarism,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bulgarism.
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