bulga

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English

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Noun

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bulga (countable and uncountable, plural bulgas)

  1. Misspelling of bulgur.

Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Gaulish bolgā, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bulga f (genitive bulgae); first declension

  1. knapsack, wallet, satchel
  2. wallet, purse
  3. (informal) womb

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bulga bulgae
Genitive bulgae bulgārum
Dative bulgae bulgīs
Accusative bulgam bulgās
Ablative bulgā bulgīs
Vocative bulga bulgae

Descendants

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  • Old French: bouge, boulge, bolge (see there for further descendants)

References

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  • bulga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • bulga in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • bulga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • bulga”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • bulga”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • Whatmough, Joshua (1950) The Dialects of Ancient Gaul, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, published 1970, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1185