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Bulgarism

Syllables: Bul·gar·ism

Bulgarism noun: bulgarian nationalism.

Noun (1)

Bulgarism (countable and uncountable, plural Bulgarisms)

  1. Bulgarian nationalism.
    • Bulgarism in Macedonia
  2. (rhetoric) A Bulgarian idiom or turn of phrase.
    • Bulgarisms in Church Slavonic texts

Noun (2)

Bulgarism (countable and uncountable, plural Bulgarisms)

  1. An ethnonationalist ideology centered upon the revival of the Volga Bulgar identity (of which the modern Tatar, Bashkir, and Chuvash people are considered descendants).

Forms of Bulgarism

pluralBulgarisms

Origin of Bulgarism

From Bulgaria + -ism.

Borrowed from Russian Булгари́зм (Bulgarízm). By surface analysis, Bulgar + -ism.

Questions about Bulgarism

What does Bulgarism mean?
Bulgarism means bulgarian nationalism.
What part of speech is Bulgarism?
Bulgarism is a noun.
What is the plural of Bulgarism?
The plural of Bulgarism is Bulgarisms.

Words near Bulgarism in the dictionary

  1. Bulgarianizes
  2. Bulgarianizing
  3. Bulgarianness
  4. Bulgarians
  5. Bulgaric
  6. Bulgarism
  7. Bulgarisms
  8. Bulgarist
  9. Bulgaristics
  10. Bulgarization
  11. Bulgarize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Bulgarism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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