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
• Adyghe: Булгарие (Bwlɣārie)
• Afrikaans: Bulgarye
• Albanian: Bullgari f
• Amharic: ቡልጋሪያ (bulgariya)
• Arabic: بُلْغَارِيَا‎ f (bulḡāriyā), بَلْغَارْيَا‎ f (balḡāryā)
• Armenian: Բուլղարիա (hy) (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 (bn) (bulgeriẏa)
• Breton: Bulgaria (br)
• Bulgarian: Бълга́рия (bg) f (Bǎlgárija)
• Burmese: ဘူဂေးရီးယား (bhuge:ri:ya:)
• Catalan: Bulgària (ca) f
• Chechen: Болгари (Bolgari)
• Cherokee: ᏊᎵᎨᎵᎠ (quuligelia)
• Chinese:

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

• Chuvash: Болгари (Bolgari), Пӑлхарӗ (Pălharĕ)
• 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 (ka) (bulgareti)
• German: Bulgarien (de) n

  Central Franconian: Bulljaarije

• Greek: Βουλγαρία (el) f (Voulgaría)

  Ancient: please add this translation if you can

• Hausa: Bulgeriya
• Hawaiian: Pulukalia
• Hebrew: בּוּלְגַּרְיָה‎ (he) f (bulgarya)
• Hindi: बुल्गारिया (hi) (bulgāriyā)
• Hungarian: Bulgária (hu)
• Icelandic: Búlgaría (is) f
• Ido: Bulgaria (io)
• Igbo: Bulgaria
• 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 (ko) (Bulgaria)
• Kyrgyz: Болгария (ky) (Bolgariya)
• Ladin: please add this translation if you can
• Ladino: Bulgaria
• 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
• Mongolian: Болгар (Bolgar)
• Navajo: Bálgaa bikéyah
• Norman: Bulgarie f
• Northern Sami: Bulgária
• Norwegian: Bulgaria (no)

  Bokmål: Bulgaria (no) n

  Nynorsk: Bulgaria (nn) n

• Novial: Bulgaria
• Occitan: Bulgaria f
• Old Norse: Bolgaraland n
• Ossetian: Болгари (Bolgari)
• Pashto: بلغاريه‎ (ps) f (bulǧāryá), بلغاريا‎ f (bolǧāryã), بلغارستان‎ m (bolǧāristãn)
• Persian: بلغارستان‎ (fa) (bolğârestân)
• Polish: Bułgaria (pl) f
• Portuguese: Bulgária (pt) f
• Quechua: Bulgarya
• Romanian: Bulgaria (ro) f
• Russian: Болга́рия (ru) f (Bolgárija)
• Rusyn: Булга́рія f (Bulhárija)
• Scots: Bulgarie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бу̏гарска f

  Roman: Bȕgarska (sh) f

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

  Lower Sorbian: Bulgarska f

  Upper Sorbian: Bołharska 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)
• Tibetan: པུ་ར་ག་རི་ཡ (pu ra ga ri ya)
• Tigrinya: ቡልጋርያ (bulgarya)
• Turkish: Bulgaristan (tr)
• Turkmen: Bolgariýa
• Ukrainian: Болга́рія (uk) f (Bolhárija), Болґа́рія f (Bolgárija) (rare)
• Urdu: بلغاریہ‎ (bulġāriyâ)
• Uyghur: بۇلغارىيە‎ (bulghariye)
• Uzbek: Bolgariya (uz)
• Veps: Bolgarii
• Vietnamese: Bun-ga-ri
• Volapük: Bulgarän (vo)
• Votic: please add this translation if you can
• Võro: Bulgaaria
• 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, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, 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 (a country in Europe)

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Asturian

Proper noun

Bulgaria f

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• búlgaru

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Basque

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /bul.ɡa.ɾja/

Proper noun

Bulgaria inan

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

Declension

Declension of Bulgaria (inan, indef, -A)

	indefinite
absolutive	Bulgaria
ergative	Bulgariak
dative	Bulgariari
genitive	Bulgariaren
comitative	Bulgariarekin
causative	Bulgariarentzat
benefactive	Bulgariarengatik
instrumental	Bulgariaz
inessive	Bulgarian
locative	Bulgariako
allative	Bulgariara
terminative	Bulgariaraino
directive	Bulgariarantz
destinative	Bulgariarako
ablative	Bulgariatik
partitive	Bulgariarik
prolative	Bulgariatzat

Derived terms

• bulgariar
• bulgariera

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Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pʊlˈkaːri.a]

Proper noun

Bulgaria n

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

Declension

Declension of Bulgaria (singular only)
n1s	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	Bulgaria	Bulgariað
accusative	Bulgaria	Bulgariað
dative	Bulgaria	Bulgarianum
genitive	Bulgaria	Bulgarians

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulɡɑ(ː)riɑ/, [ˈbulɡɑ(ː)ˌriɑ]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification: bul‧ga‧ri‧a

Proper noun

Bulgaria

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

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		—	—

Possessive forms of Bulgaria (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Bulgariani	Bulgariamme
2nd person	Bulgariasi	Bulgarianne
3rd person	Bulgariansa

Anagrams

• bulgaari

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Galician

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Bulgaria f

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• búlgaro

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Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bulˈɡari̯a/

Proper noun

Bulgaria

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

See also

• (countries of Europe) lando di Europa; Albania, Andora, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bielorusia, Belgia, Bosnia e Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kroatia, Chipro, Chekia, Dania, Estonia, Finlando, Francia, Gruzia, Germania, Grekia, Hungaria, Islando, Irlando, Italia, Kazakstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lituania, Luxemburgia, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monako, Montenegro, Nederlando, Norvegia, Polonia, Portugal, Rumania, Rusia, San-Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hispania, Suedia, Suisia, Turkia, Ukraina, Unionita Rejio, Vatikano

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bulɡaˈri.a/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Bulgaria f

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• bulgaro

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Latin

Etymology

In Middle Latin, from Bulgar +‎ -ia.

Proper noun

Bulgaria f sg (genitive Bulgariae); first declension

1. (medieval, New Latin) Bulgaria

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Bulgaria
Genitive	Bulgariae
Dative	Bulgariae
Accusative	Bulgariam
Ablative	Bulgariā
Vocative	Bulgaria

Descendants

• ⇒ Georgian: ბულგარეთი (bulgareti)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Bulgaria

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• bulgarer
• bulgarsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Bulgaria

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• bulgar, bulgarar
• bulgarsk

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Occitan

Proper noun

Bulgaria f

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• bulgar

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bulˈɡa.rja/

Proper noun

Bulgaria f

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• bulgar
• bulgară
• bulgăresc

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bulˈɡaɾja/, [bulˈɣaɾja]

Proper noun

Bulgaria f

1. Bulgaria (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• búlgaro, búlgara