Bulgar

Bul·gar

[buhl-ger, bool-gahr]
noun
Bulgarian ( def 1 ).
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Bulgar (ˈbʌlɡɑː, ˈbʊl-) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  a member of a group of non-Indo-European peoples that settled in SE Europe in the late 7th century ad and adopted the language and culture of their Slavonic subjects
2.  a rare name for a Bulgarian

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Bulgar is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Word Origin & History

Bulgar
1759, "inhabitant of Bulgaria" (Bulgarian is attested from 1550s), from M.L. Bulgarus (see Bulgaria).
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