bulgarism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An ethnonationalist ideology centered upon the revival of the Volga Bulgar identity (of which the modern Tatar, Bashkir, and Chuvash people are considered descendants).
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Bulgarism in Macedonia"
- "Bulgarisms in Church Slavonic texts"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Turkic *bulga-der. Proto-Turkic *bulgar Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰍𐰀 (b¹wl¹g¹a) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Slavic *-inъ Old Church Slavonic -инъ (-inŭ) Old Church Slavonic блъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ)bor. Medieval Latin Bulgarusbor. English Bulgarder. Latin -iader. English -iader. English Bulgaria Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English Bulgarism From Bulgaria + -ism.