bulga

English

Noun

bulga (countable and uncountable, plural bulgas)

1. Misspelling of bulgur.

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbul.ɡa/, [ˈbʊɫ̪ɡä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbul.ɡa/, [ˈbulɡä]

Noun

bulga f (genitive bulgae); first declension

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

Declension

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

• Old French: boulge, bouge
  • French: bouge
  • → Middle English: bulge, boulge
    • English: bulge
  • → Middle English: bouge
    • English: budge
  • Old French: bougette
    • → Middle English: bogett, bouget, bowgette
      • English: budget
• Italian: bolgia

References

• “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