bulga

English

Noun

bulga

1. Misspelling of bulgur.

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbʊɫ.ɡa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbul.ɡa]

Noun

bulga f (genitive bulgae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	bulga	bulgae
genitive	bulgae	bulgārum
dative	bulgae	bulgīs
accusative	bulgam	bulgās
ablative	bulgā	bulgīs
vocative	bulga	bulgae

Descendants

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

References

• “bulga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "bulga", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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