Relating to Bulgaria or the Bulgarian people; a variant or older spelling of 'Bulgarian.'
From 'Bulgaria,' the Balkan nation. The '-i' ending is a variant of '-ian,' sometimes used in English for proper adjectives, though 'Bulgarian' is now standard.
English spelling of country names and their adjectives has changed over centuries—what was 'Bulgar' or 'Bulgari' is now standardized as 'Bulgarian,' showing how English standardizes borrowed terms over time.
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