Definition of Old Bulgarian

1. Noun. The Slavic language into which the Bible was translated in the 9th century.


Definition of Old Bulgarian

1. Proper noun. Old Church Slavonic. ¹

2. Proper noun. The Bulgarian recension of Old Church Slavonic (9th–11th century). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Old Bulgarian

Oktoberfest
Ol Cemet'
Ol Chiki
Ola
Olaf
Olaf II
Olav II
Olbers' paradox
Old Armenian
Old Babylonian
Old Bailey
Old Belarusian
Old Bill
Old Blighty
Old Breton
Old Bulgarian (current term)
Old Bullion
Old Catalan
Old Catholic
Old Catholic Church
Old Chinese
Old Church Slavic
Old Church Slavonic
Old Colony
Old Cornish
Old Dart
Old Delhi
Old Dominion
Old Dominion State
Old Dutch

Literary usage of Old Bulgarian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"These authorities agree in describing the liturgical language as " Old Bulgarian." A different view, however, is maintained by Miklosich, Kopitar and some ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1914)
"Old Bulgarian INSCRIPTIONS—(P. 140) Stone records of Bulgarian khans of the ninth ... Old Bulgarian ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The " Old Bulgarian," or archaic Slavonic, was an inflexional language of the ... The earliest manuscripts of the " Old Bulgarian ' are written in one or ..."

4. Macedonia by Tihomir R. Đorđević (1918)
"... mountains—Contrast between the Bulgars and the conquered Slavs—Their gradual fusion into the present Bulgarian nation —Traces of old Bulgarian qualities ..."

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