Bulgur

//ˈbʌlɡə(ɹ)// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Wheat grains that have been steamed, dried, and crushed; a staple of Middle Eastern cooking. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    parched crushed wheat wordnet

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bulgur wheatbulghur

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"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."

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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