vulgar

See also vulgär, and vulgær

English

Etymology

Middle English, from Latin vulgāris, from volgus, vulgus (“mob; common folk”), from Proto-Indo-European *wl̥k- (compare Welsh gwala (“plenty, sufficiency”), Ancient Greek ἁλία (halia, “assembly”) εἰλέω (eileō, “ to compress”), Old Church Slavonic вєликъ (velikŭ, “great”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈvʌl.ɡə/
• (US) IPA: /ˈvʌl.ɡɚ/

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Adjective

vulgar (comparative vulgarer or more vulgar, superlative vulgarest or most vulgar)

1. Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.
   • The construction worker made a vulgar suggestion to the girls walking down the street.
2. (classical sense) Having to do with ordinary, common people.
   • 1860, G. Syffarth, "A Remarkable Seal in Dr. Abbott's Museum at New York", Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis‎, age 265

     Further, the same sacred name in other monuments precedes the vulgar name of King Takellothis, the sixth of the XXII. Dyn., as we have seen.

Synonyms

• (obscene): inappropriate, obscene, debased, uncouth, offensive
• (ordinary): common, ordinary, popular

Derived terms

• (obscene): vulgarity
• (ordinary): vulgar fraction, vulgate, Vulgate
• vulgar fraction

Translations

obscene

Armenian: կոպիտ (hy) (kopit) Danish: vulgær (da), (dated) obskøn (da), uanstændig (da) Dutch: vulgair (nl), obsceen (nl), smakeloos (nl), ruw (nl), ordinair (nl) Esperanto: triviala (eo) Finnish: rivo (fi), vulgaari, alatyylinen (linguistics), sivistymätön (fi) French: vulgaire (fr) m. and f., obscène (fr) m. and f. German: vulgär (de), unfein (de), ungebildet (de), unanständig (de), ungehobelt (de), vulgärsprachlich (de) Greek: χυδαίος (el) (khideos) m., πρόστυχος (el) (prostikhos) m., αγοραίος (el) (agoreos) m.

Hungarian: közönséges (hu), otromba (hu), durva (hu) Persian: رکيک (fa) (rakik), مبتذل (fa) (mobtazal) Polish: obsceniczny (pl) m. Romanian: obscen (ro) m. and n., vulgar (ro) m. and n. Russian: вульгарный (ru) (vul'gárnyj), непристойный (ru) (nepristójnyj), неприличный (ru) (neprilíčnyj), пошлый (ru) (póšlyj) Spanish: vulgar (es) Swedish: vulgär (sv)

having to do with common people

Danish: vulgær (da), simpel (da), ordinær (da), (dated) gemen (da) Dutch: volks (nl), gewoon (nl), gemeen (nl), ordinair (nl) Esperanto: vulgara (eo) Finnish: kansanomainen (fi), rahvaanomainen (fi) Galician: vulgar (gl) German: allgemein (de), ordinär (de), vulgär (de), vulgärsprachlich (de), Volks- (de), volkstümlich (de), gemein (de), gewöhnlich (de)

Greek: κοινός (el) (kinos) m. Romanian: grosolan (ro) m. and n., comun (ro) m. and n., ordinar (ro) m. and n., ordinară f. Scottish Gaelic: gràisgeil (gd) Spanish: vulgar (es)

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin vulgāris.

Adjective

vulgar m. and f. (plural vulgares)

1. common to the people, vulgar
2. ordinary, undistinguished
3. popular, commonly understood, as opposed to scientific or technical
4. simple, unintelligent

Synonyms

• (ordinary): prosaico
• (popular): común, popular

Antonyms

• (popular): científico, técnico

Related terms

• vulgaridade
• vulgarismo
• vulgo

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Romanian

Etymology

Latin vulgaris

Adjective

vulgar ^{mn nom/acc forms}

1. vulgar

Synonyms

• grosolan
• ordinar
• comun

Declension

declension of vulgar

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	vulgar		vulgară	vulgari	vulgare
	definite	vulgarul		vulgara	vulgarii	vulgarele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	vulgar		vulgare	vulgari	vulgare
	definite	vulgarului		vulgarei	vulgarilor	vulgarelor

Related terms

• vulg

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin vulgāris.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bulˈɡaɾ/, SAMPA: /bul"ga4/

Adjective

vulgar m. and f. (plural vulgares)

1. vulgar

Related terms

• vulgo
• vulgaridad