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Bulgarian

adjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//bʌlˈɡɛə.ɹi.ən//
  • United States//bʌlˈɡɛɹi.ən//
  • United States//bʊlˈɡɛɹi.ən//
  • //bʊlˈɡɑɹi.ən//

Relating to Bulgaria, its people, or the Bulgarian language.

adjective

  1. 1

    Relating to Bulgaria, its people, or the Bulgarian language.

    Gary Cahill, a target for Arsenal and Tottenham before the transfer window closed, put England ahead early on and Rooney was on target twice before the interval as the early hostility of the Bulgarian supporters was swiftly subdued.

Etymology

From Bulgaria + -an or Bulgar + -ian.

noun

  1. 1

    A native of Bulgaria.

    Actually, this ethnic situation—a “macédoine” of peoples—was complicated even more from the 1860s on when some of the Slavs in Macedonia who had always called themselves Bulgarians (and were considered so by most foreign experts) began developing a Macedonian national consciousness.

  2. 2

    The official language of Bulgaria.

    The big advantage of learning Russian is that, once you’re proficient, you can understand other Slav languages such as Czech, Polish or Bulgarian.

  3. 3

    Variant of Bulgarian split squatEllipsis of Bulgarian split squat.

    Yes, Bulgarians attack glutes (and this one does too!) but all the pauses and pulses in this series will also exhaust your quads.

Forms

plural
Bulgarians
comparative
more Bulgarian
superlative
most Bulgarian
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).