different between bulgur vs pelt

English

Alternative forms

• bulgar, bulghur, burghul, bourghul, bulgoor, bulghoor

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ?????? (bul?ur) (modern Turkish bulgur), by metathesis from older ??????? (bur?ul), from Arabic ???????? (bur?ul), from Persian ?????? (bar??l), ?????? (par??l).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?l??(?)/

Noun

bulgur (countable and uncountable, plural bulgurs)

1. wheat grains that have been steamed, dried and crushed; a staple of Middle Eastern cooking.

   Synonym: bulgur wheat

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References

Finnish

Etymology

From Turkish bulgur

Noun

bulgur

1. bulgur

Declension

Synonyms

• bulgurvehnä

Romanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ?????? (bul?ur) (modern Turkish bulgur), by metathesis from older ??????? (bur?ul), from Arabic ???????? (bur?ul), from Persian ?????? (bar??l), ?????? (par??l).

Noun

bulgur n (uncountable)

1. (Moldavia, Muntenia) bulgur

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Turkish bulgur (“bruised grain”).

Noun

bulgur m (plural bulgures)

1. bulgur

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ??????? (bur?ul), ?????? (bul?ur), from Arabic ???????? (bur?ul).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?.??u?/
• Hyphenation: bul?gur

Noun

bulgur (definite accusative bulguru, plural bulgurlar)

1. bulgur

Declension

Further reading

• “bulgur”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French pelette, diminutive of pel (“a skin”), from Latin pellis. Alternatively a contraction of peltry (“skins”) from the same Old French and Latin roots.Norwegian pels, Norwegian belte

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt

Noun

pelt (plural pelts)

1. The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it.
2. The body of any quarry killed by a hawk.
3. (humorous) Human skin.

   • A scabby tetter on their pelts will stick

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Translations

Etymology 2

Possible contraction of pellet

Verb

pelt (third-person singular simple present pelts, present participle pelting, simple past and past participle pelted)

1. (transitive) To bombard, as with missiles.

   They pelted the attacking army with bullets.

2. (transitive) To throw; to use as a missile.

   The children pelted apples at us.

3. (intransitive) To rain or hail heavily.

   It's pelting down out there!

4. (transitive) To beat or hit, especially repeatedly.
5. (intransitive) To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.

   The boy pelted down the hill on his toboggan.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To throw out words.

Translations

Noun

pelt (plural pelts)

1. A blow or stroke from something thrown.
   • 2013, Karen-Anne Stewart, Healing Rain (page 134)

     Kas is awakened by the furious pelts of rain hitting the tin roof, and he rolls over, pulling his sleeping wife tightly into his arms.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “pelt”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• -lept, lept, lept-

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

pelt

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of pellen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of pellen