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barghul
Persian · medieval
"cracked wheat"
named parboiled, cracked wheat, meaning roughly "roughly crushed"
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burghul
Arabic · medieval
"cracked wheat"
spread the grain and its name across the medieval Middle East
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bulgur
Ottoman Turkish · 1800s
"cracked wheat"
the sounds were rearranged in Turkish pronunciation
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bulgur
English · 1926
"parboiled cracked wheat"
entered English food writing describing the ancient Middle Eastern grain staple
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