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Bulgur

Definition: Bulgur

Bulgur

Noun

1. (Turkey) parched crushed wheat.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: Bulgur

DomainDefinitions

Agriculture

Wheat that has been parboiled, dried, and partially debranned for later use in cracked or whole grain form. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Bulgur

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Bulgur or bulgur wheat is cracked and paraboiled wheat grains, often found in Middle Eastern and Mediterranean dishes.

Bulgur can be used in pilafs, soups, bakery goods or as stuffing, but is best known as a main ingredient in tabouli salad. Its higher nutritional value makes a good substitute for rice or cous cous.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bulgur."

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Synonyms: Bulgur

Synonyms: bulghur (n), bulgur wheat (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Bulgur

English words defined with "bulgur": bulgur pilaf, bulgur wheattabbouleh, tabooli. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Bulgur" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Turkmen (wine-glass).

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Commercial Usage: Bulgur

DomainTitle

Books

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Expressions: Bulgur

Expressions using "bulgur": bulgur pilaf bulgur wheat. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bulgur

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bulgur

35

bulgur wheat

9

bulgur recipe

4
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Modern Translations: Bulgur

Language Translations for "bulgur"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

bulgur (burgul). (various references)

   

French

  

bulgure (burgul), bulgur (burgul), boulgour, boulghour. (various references)

   

German

  

Bulgur (burgul). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ulgurbay

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Derivations & Misspellings: Bulgur

Derivations

Words beginning with "bulgur": bulgurs. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Bulgur" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bilogora, bluger, Bugar, bulgar, Bulture, Mulguy, vulgur. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Bulgur

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-g-l-r-u-u"

-2 letters: blur, burg, burl, grub, guru.

-3 letters: bug, bur, gul, lug, rub, rug, ulu, urb.

 Words containing the letters "b-g-l-r-u-u"
 

+1 letter: bulgurs.

 

+4 letters: lugubrious, unarguable, unarguably.

 

+5 letters: burglarious, burlesquing.

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Alternative Orthography: Bulgur


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 75 6C 67 75 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    ..-    .-..    --.    ..-    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01110101 01101100 01100111 01110101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#117 &#108 &#103 &#117 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0075 006C 0067 0075 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

368778738784

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Bulgur"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Danish

ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelsedanois, dänisch

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrançais, französisch

German

wörterbuch, Übersetzungtysker, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglais, englisch
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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