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burghul

burghul is the alternative form of bulgur.

Meaning of bulgur

Noun

bulgur (countable and uncountable, plural bulgurs)

  1. Wheat grains that have been steamed, dried, and crushed; a staple of Middle Eastern cooking.
    • Before man baked bread, he made bulgur by parboiling wheat and spreading it out in the sun to dry. […] Every household in the Near East prepared a year's store of bulgur in the fall after the wheat harvest.1961, Frederic R. Senti, W. Dayton Maclay, “Age-Old Uses of Seeds and Some New Ones”, in Yearbook of Agriculture, The United States Department of Agriculture, page 31
    Synonyms:
    bulgur wheat

Questions about burghul

What is burghul the alternative form of?
Burghul is the alternative form of bulgur.

Words near burghul in the dictionary

  1. burghmote
  2. burghmotes
  3. burghs
  4. burghs of barony
  5. burghs of regality
  6. burghul
  7. Burgin
  8. burginot
  9. burginots
  10. Burgins
  11. Burgio

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