#bulgar

[songs-of-the-east]

An elderly woman in a Kryashen headdress. The Kryashens are a sub-ethnic group of Volga Tatars who converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

[vinceverbatim]

Mavi Defter

Öyle çok kalmış ki dünyanın masalarında tek başına, saatine bakarak, insanları boş boş seyrederek, yıllar içinde hep aynı siyah, yeşil, mavi ve beyaz deftere bir şeyler karalayarak, mahcubiyet içinde, elbette. Başka birini bekliyor musunuz diye soruyor garsonlar, birini bekliyor musunuz? Henüz bilmiyorum, diyorum, belki gecikir, diyorum, belki de asla gelmez.

Georgi Gospodinov, Yokluğun Haritaları

[joelchaimholtzman]

Here is a painting I made a few years ago + some edits.

This is a female warrior from the medieval Volga Bulgar era; Steppe warriors from the east who settled in Central Europe.

Hope you like it!

Best,

JCH

[zubata-zhaba]

Background for the idea of the drawing:

I was reading this paper this winter and it seems to give further evidence that the highest percent of genetic heritage in modern Bulgarians can be (conditionally) attributed to medieval Slavs, while the rest would ought to be distributed between other groups (such as Bulgars, local population, later migrations, etc). And at one point I had the image in my head of a medieval Slavic toothless peasant girl having to choose between a flea-ridden Vlach shepherd boy and a bow-legged Bulgar horseman. I thought it would be funny if this was represented in this kind of YA-style novel/film of a young woman being in a love triangle during a military conflict (which the Middle ages abound with).

So I thought of this story that takes place in the 9th c. where a young girl whose village was raided by the Byzantines led her to want to join the Bulgarian army. She met resistance from the chiefs, however, there was a compromise - she was still allowed to help out with logistics, cooking and distributing resources among the soldiers, etc. One warrior though believed in her ability to learn to fight and trained her at night, when the others were sleeping, which led to them becoming close friends. Meanwhile she would regularly buy provisions for the army from a local shepherd boy and they also seemed to develop a liking to each other. Political conflict escalates and leads to the battle of Pliska between khan Krum and emperor Nicephorus I, where on the side of the Bulgarians women join the fight. Our girl tastes blood for the first time and it changes her forever..

Things from here on become a little different and I'll keep the rest of the story to myself in case I ever turn this into something, but it's meant to make fun of itself to some extent. I made the drawing in the style of YA poster films and the Menologion of Basil II. The main character was based on the personification of Sclavinia in the gospels of Otto III. Except for the Bulgar boy and the girl's temple ring, the clothes and hairstyles are speculation based on later ethnographic data.

[fattributes]

Kibbeh in Garlic Yogurt Sauce

[bobemajses]

A bulgar named after and/or originating from the southwestern Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi (Tshernovits in Yiddish, Cernăuţi in Romanian). It lies in the historical Bukovina region and was a multinational city, with the city’s population being a mixture of Ukrainians, Romanians, Jews, Germans, and Armenians. Jews made up around 40% of the population before the war, and Chernivtsi was also called  “Jerusalem on the Prut River.” 

[kingeyelidz]

and remember our moto, if you do well, i'll become famous

*takes funky character from bad 10 year old webseries and runs *

[linguisticsizfun]

Bulgarisms in Khanty

This article deals with words derived from Bulgar Turkic in the Khanty language. Khanty is an Ob-Ugric language alongside Mansi, part of the larger Uralic language family. Bulgar Turkic left Chuvash as its only living descendant. These entries are from the article Булгаризмы в хантыйском языке (с дискуссионными комментариями А. Рона-Таша).

The words were borrowed into PXa = Proto Khanty

Legend:

PXa = Proto-Khanty

Ch. = Chuvash

Tat. = Tatar (North Kypchak Turkic)

Bsh. = Bashkir (North Kypchak Turkic)

PT = Proto-Turkic

*pætər-ŋææj

whirlpool (J pæ̆tərŋi) (with suffix -ŋææj, compare *küɲŋææj rainbow, Mansi *künɣəl, > V køɲŋi, J kɵnŋi, Dn kŏšŋɐj); < Ch. пĕтĕр- pĕdĕr- twist, roll up (> Mari pətəräš, pütɨraš), < PT büt-ir- braid, büt-iš- interweave > Turkish bitiş-mek, Tat. бөтер- bøter-, Bsk. бөтөргөс bøtørgøs detail of a loom

*jaaɣ

people (V, Vj. jaɣ, Trj, J jɒɣ, Kaz. jɔx > Mansi jɔɔxŋ) < Ch. йӑх jăx race, tribe, kin (> Mari jɨx, jɨxsɨr "infertile", with suffix -sɨr “without”) < OT uq~oq; Mongol ug "root, base"

*kæɲ ~ kiiɲ

disease (V, Vj, Vart, Sur, Mj, Trj, J ki̯ń; Š, Kaz, Sy χĭń; Kaz χĭń; > Mansi χiń) < Tat. кыен qɨjen, Bsh. ҡыйын qɨjɨn difficult, Ch. хĕн xĕn torture (> Mgy. kín "torture, pain") < PT *Kɨɨjn. The two variants seen in Khanty could be from separate borrowings from Tatar and Chuvash.

*pæć ~ piić

thigh (VT pitˈ; Vj pitˈ; I petˈ; Kaz, Sy peś), Mansi (LM peeś, P peś, K piś ~ piš, T piś ~ pīš) < POb.Ug. *piić thigh < Ch. пĕҫĕ pĕʑĕ thigh, hip < PT *buut. The Chuvash form comes from *buut + 3rd person possessive suffix –(s)ɨ > *buut-ɨ where tɨ > čɨ

*kooj-/ køøj-/ kaj- 

remnant of shaved wood (Kaz (St) χǫjəŋ (χǫjŋɛm), Sy χujəŋ), < Ch. хӑйӑ xăjă splinter < PT *Kɨj- cut into small pieces, shred, mince > Turkish kıymak "mince, shred"

*ćuɭći ~ ćɨɭći

mouse (Kaz (St)śŏḷśi-păḷśi Kaz śŭʌ́śi, VT tˈuɭmi̮, Vj, VK tˈulˈmi̮, Likr tˈi̮zˈmi̮, Mj, Trj tˈi̮ʌ́əm little sharp-faced mouse), Mansi n. śolˈsi ~ śolśi ~ śōlˈśi ~ śōlˈiś [śōlˈśi]; LM śōlˈiś ~ śōliś ~ šolˈeś ~ śolˈes ~ śōlˈeš; LU šolˈš; P śolˈiś ~ śålˈiś; K sōliś ~ sōlˈeś ~ sōlˈiś ~ sōliś; T śalˈś ~ śalˈiś ~ šalˈš, < Ch. шӑши ʃăʒi/ šăži < PT. *sïčgan > Old Uyghur syčγˈn sïčɣan, Tatar тычкан tɨčkan, Kazakh тышқан tışqan, Southern Altai чычкан čɨčkan, Shor шышқан šïšqan, Uzbek sichqon, Uyghur چاشقان‎ chashqan, Turkish sıçan.

Medial -ɭ- in Khanty may come from a dialectal form. Dialectal Chuvash šărži.

saart 

pike fish (V, Vj, Vart, Likr, Mj sart (V surtəm); Trj, J sårt (surtəm); I sort; Kaz sɔrt; Sy sɔr); Mansi sort ~ sɒrt < POb.Ug. *saart; < Bsh. суртан surtan, Ch. ҫӑрт(т)ан ɕărdan ~ ɕărttan < PT *čortan > Ya. сордоҥ sordong, Tat. чуртан čurtan

*kaaŋrV ~ kuuŋrV

insect (Kaz (KT, St) χɔŋʽri; I tˈoŋχər); < Ch. хӑмӑр xămăr "drone" (male bee), хорт-хӑмӑр xort-xămăr "insect" (general) < PT *Koŋuŕ beetle > Tat. qoŋɣɨz, Ya. xomurduos, Khakas Xoos