A cracked grain product made from wheat, also spelled 'bulgur'; a staple in Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cooking.
From Turkish 'bulgur' or Arabic 'burghul,' derived from the root meaning 'to break' or 'crack.' The grain is partially cooked and dried, then cracked into pieces—the preparation method gave the grain its name.
Bulgur is one of humanity's oldest processed foods—people have been making it for thousands of years, and the word traveled from the Middle East into English through culinary and trade contacts.
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