Example sentences for: bulgarian

How can you use “bulgarian” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • striptiz uotur striptease water, a curious reference to maladroit, foolish individuals; kretenozavur cretinosaurus; boiler one whose head is full of bubbling hot water; sifon siphon, one whose head is like an empty tube; bushón fuse, from French bouchon cork; diaria diarrhea; loko from Spanish loco; galosh as in galoshes; kashón crate, from Italian cassone; lainer ocean liner, a pun on the Bulgarian word lainó scum.

  • The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of Germany led on a NATO bomb hitting the Bulgarian capital of Sofia.

  • And while Slavs did move into the area around 500, when the Bulgarian Empire conquered the Balkans, the Serbs didn't gain control of Kosovo until the 12 th century, when a dynasty of their leaders known as the Nemanjids invaded it after a period of Byzantine rule.

  • L e Monde also devoted a front-page article Sunday to a mysterious journey by Yugoslav Defense Minister Pavle Bulatovic, who, according to the Bulgarian newspaper Trud , turned up unexpectedly last Monday at the Serb-Bulgarian border post of Kalotina and was kept waiting there for several hours before being taken to the airport at Sofia, the Bulgarian capital.

  • A particularly interesting trait of Bulgarian slang is the astonishing array of rough words of Turkish origin for idiot, loser, asshole, etc.: abdál, ahmak, bálama, balamúr, balamúrnik, balúk, budalá, bunák, chirák, chukundur, dangalák, dangul, edepsizlík, esnáf, haidamák, hairsús, haivan, haivanin, inatchiya, kakavanín, katraník, kepazé, kusurlíya, leke, mandá, maskará, pachá, palamud, perdesis, rendé, sersém, and sersemin .


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