bulghur

bul·gur also bul·ghur  (bl-gr, blgr)

n.

Cracked wheat grains, often used in Middle Eastern dishes. Also called bulgur wheat.

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[Ottoman Turkish bulur, from Arabic burul, burl, from Persian barghl.]

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bulghur - parched crushed wheat bulgur, bulgur wheat wheat, wheat berry - grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour tabbouleh, tabooli - a finely chopped salad with tomatoes and parsley and mint and scallions and bulgur wheat Republic of Turkey, Turkey - a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923