bulga

bulga (countable and uncountable, plural bulgas)

1. Misspelling of bulgur.

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

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

bulga f (genitive bulgae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

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

• “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
• Whatmough, Joshua (1950) The Dialects of Ancient Gaul, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, published 1970, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1185