Bulgaria

See also: bulgaria, Bulgária, Búlgaría, Bulgarìa, Bulgària, and Bułgaria

English

Etymology

Bulgar +‎ -ia, from the Middle Latin, in English used from the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bʌlˈɡɛə.ɹi.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bʌlˈɡɛɹ.i.ə/, /bʊlˈɡɛɹ.i.ə/

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Proper noun

Bulgaria

2. A country in Southeastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Bulgaria.

Derived terms

• Bulgarian

Translations

country

• Abkhaz: Былгариа (Bəlgāriā)
• Acehnese: Bulgaria
• Afrikaans: Bulgarye
• Albanian: Bullgari f
• Arabic: بُلْغَارِيَا‎‎ f (bulḡāriyā)
• Armenian: Բուլղարիա (Bulłaria)
• Aromanian: Vurgaria
• Asturian: Bulgaria (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Bolqarıstan (az)
• Bashkir: Болгария (Bolgariya)
• Basque: Bulgaria (eu)
• Belarusian: Балга́рыя f (Balháryja), Баўга́рыя f (Baŭháryja)
• Bengali: বুলগেরিয়া (bulgeriya)
• Breton: Bulgaria (br)
• Bulgarian: Бълга́рия (bg) f (Bǎlgárija)
• Burmese: ဘူဂေးရီးယား (bhuge:ri:ya:)
• Catalan: Bulgària (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 保加利亞 (zh), 保加利亚 (zh) (Bǎojiālìyà)

• Chuvash: Болгари (Bolgari)
• Crimean Tatar: Bulğaristan
• Czech: Bulharsko (cs) n
• Danish: Bulgarien (da)
• Dhivehi: ބަލްގޭރިއާ‎‎ (dv) (balgēriā)
• Dutch: Bulgarije (nl)
• Esperanto: Bulgario, Bulgarujo
• Estonian: Bulgaaria (et)
• Faroese: Bulgaria n
• Finnish: Bulgaria (fi), Bulgarian tasavalta (fi)
• French: Bulgarie (fr) f
• Galician: Bulgaria (gl) f
• Georgian: ბულგარეთი (bulgareti)
• German: Bulgarien (de) n

  Central Franconian: Bulljaarije

• Greek: Βουλγαρία (el) f (Voulgaría)
• Hausa: Bulgeriya
• Hawaiian: Pulukalia
• Hebrew: בּוּלְגַּרְיָה‎‎ (he) f (bulgarya)
• Hindi: बुल्गारिया (hi) (bulgāriyā)
• Hungarian: Bulgária (hu)
• Icelandic: Búlgaría (is) f
• Ido: Bulgaria (io)
• Indonesian: Bulgaria (id)
• Interlingua: Bulgaria (ia)
• Irish: An Bhulgáir f, Poblacht na Bulgáire f
• Italian: Bulgaria (it) f
• Japanese: ブルガリア (ja) (Burugaria)
• Kalenjin: Bulgaria
• Kamba: Bulgaria
• Karakalpak: Bolgariya
• Kazakh: Болгария (Bolgarïya), Болғария (Bolğarïya), Бұлғарстан (Bulğarstan)
• Khmer: ប៊ុលហ្គារី (bulgaarii)
• Kikuyu: Bulgaria
• Korean: 불가리아 (Bulgaria)
• Kyrgyz: Болгария (ky) (Bolgariya)
• Lao: ບຸນກາຣີ (bun kā rī)

• Latvian: Bulgārija f
• Limburgish: Bölgerië (li)
• Lithuanian: Bulgarija (lt) f
• Livonian: Bulgārij
• Luhya: Bulgaria
• Luo: Bulgaria
• Macedonian: Бугарија (mk) f (Bugarija)
• Malay: Bulgaria
• Maltese: il-Bulgarija
• Manx: Yn Vulgeyr f
• Maori: Purukāria
• Meru: Bulgaria
• Navajo: Bálgaa bikéyah
• Norman: Bulgarie f
• Northern Sami: Bulgária
• Norwegian: Bulgaria (no)
• Novial: Bulgaria
• Occitan: Bulgaria f
• Old Norse: Bolgaraland n
• Persian: بلغارستان‎‎ (fa) (bolğârestân)
• Polish: Bułgaria (pl) f
• Portuguese: Bulgária (pt) f
• Quechua: Bulgarya
• Romanian: Bulgaria (ro) f
• Russian: Болга́рия (ru) f (Bolgárija)
• Rusyn: Булгарія f (Bulharija)
• Scots: Bulgarie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бу̏гарска f

  Roman: Bȕgarska (sh) f

• Sicilian: Bulgarìa f
• Silesian: Bułgaryjo f
• Sinhalese: බල්‍ගේරියාව (bal‍gēriyāva)
• Slovak: Bulharsko (sk) n
• Slovene: Bolgárija (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Bulgarska f

• Spanish: Bulgaria (es) f
• Swahili: Bulgaria (sw)
• Swedish: Bulgarien (sv)
• Tagalog: Bulgarya
• Tajik: Булғористон (Bulġoriston)
• Tatar: Болгария (tt) (Bolgariya)
• Thai: บัลแกเรีย (th) (ban-gɛɛ-riia)
• Turkish: Bulgaristan (tr)
• Turkmen: Bolgariýa
• Ukrainian: Болга́рія (uk) f (Bolhárija)
• Urdu: بلغاریہ‎‎ (bulġāriyâ)
• Uzbek: Bolgariya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Bun-ga-ri
• Volapük: Bulgarän (vo)
• Yakut: Болгария (Bolgariya)
• Yiddish: בולגאַריע‎‎ f (bulgarye)
• Yoruba: Bùùgáríà
• Zazaki: Bulğarıstan (Southern Zazaki)

See also

• Appendix:Place names in Bulgaria
• (countries of Europe) country of Europe; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City

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Acehnese

Proper noun

Bulgaria

1. Bulgaria

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Asturian

Proper noun

Bulgaria f

1. Bulgaria

Related terms

• búlgaru

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Basque

Proper noun

Bulgaria

1. Bulgaria

Declension

"Bulgaria" inanimate proper noun indefinite absolutive Bulgaria ergative Bulgariak dative Bulgariari genitive Bulgariaren comitative Bulgariarekin causative Bulgariarengatik benefactive Bulgariarentzat instrumental Bulgariaz innesive Bulgariatan locative Bulgariatako allative Bulgariatara terminative Bulgariataraino directive Bulgariatarantz destinative Bulgariatarako ablative Bulgariatatik partitive Bulgariarik prolative Bulgariatzat

Related terms

• bulgariar
• bulgariera

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Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pʊlˈkaːri.a]

Proper noun

Bulgaria n

1. Bulgaria

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Finnish

Proper noun

Bulgaria

1. Bulgaria

Declension

Inflection of Bulgaria (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Bulgaria	—
genitive		Bulgarian	—
partitive		Bulgariaa	—
illative		Bulgariaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Bulgaria	—
accusative	nom.	Bulgaria	—
	gen.	Bulgarian
genitive		Bulgarian	—
partitive		Bulgariaa	—
inessive		Bulgariassa	—
elative		Bulgariasta	—
illative		Bulgariaan	—
adessive		Bulgarialla	—
ablative		Bulgarialta	—
allative		Bulgarialle	—
essive		Bulgariana	—
translative		Bulgariaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Bulgariatta	—
comitative		—	—

Anagrams

• bulgaari

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Galician

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Bulgaria f

1. Bulgaria

Related terms

• búlgaro

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bulɡaˈri.a/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Bulgaria f

1. Bulgaria

Related terms

• bulgaro

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Latin

Etymology

In Middle Latin, from Bulgar +‎ -ia.

Proper noun

Bulgaria f (genitive Bulgariae); first declension

1. (medieval, New Latin) Bulgaria

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular
nominative	Bulgaria
genitive	Bulgariae
dative	Bulgariae
accusative	Bulgariam
ablative	Bulgariā
vocative	Bulgaria

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Bulgaria

1. Bulgaria

Related terms

• bulgarer
• bulgarsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Bulgaria

1. Bulgaria

Related terms

• bulgar, bulgarar
• bulgarsk

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bulˈɡa.rj.a/

Proper noun

Bulgaria f

1. Bulgaria

Related terms

• bulgar
• bulgară
• bulgăresc

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bulˈɡaɾja/

Proper noun

Bulgaria f

1. Bulgaria

Related terms

• búlgaro, búlgara