bulgur

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
14
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈbʌlɡə(ɹ)/
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/ˈbʌlɡə(ɹ)/ · /ˈbʊlɡə(ɹ)/

Definition of bulgur

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)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.”

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Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بلغور (bulğur) (modern Turkish bulgur), by metathesis from older بورغول (burğul), from Arabic بُرْغُل (burḡul), from Persian برغول (barġul), پرغول (parġul).

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