🟢 Italian words in the Bulgarian language

По повод международния European Day of Languages – language borrowings от италиански произход влизат във фокуса на днешната ни тема.

IN The Bulgarian language has many words of Italian origin. – usually related to seafaring, music, art, food, trade and crafts. They entered mainly during the Renaissance and after the Ottoman period, when Bulgarians had contacts with Venice, Genoa, Dubrovnik, etc.

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🟢 Bulgarian words in other languages

🍲 Food and drinks

• yogurt – yogurt (English, French, German, Russian, Japanese and many others)
• pie – banitsa (English, Russian, Greek – through cooking)
• sausage – lukanka (English, German, Russian – culinary circles)
• brandy – brandy/brandy (English, Russian, German, Serbian, Croatian)

🎶 Folklore and culture

• dance – good morning (English, German, Russian – like a folk dance)
• bagpipe – gaida/bagpipe (English, German, Russian, Polish – musical term)
• caval – kaval (English, French, German – musical instrument)
• martenitsa – martenitsa/martinitsa (English, Russian, Romanian – ethnographic context)

🏔 Nature and Geography

• Balkan – Balkans (English, German, French, Russian – geographical term)
• Bulgarian / Bulgarians – Bulgarian, Bulgarian (English and many languages as an ethnonym)

🛠 Lifestyle and everyday life

• pepper – Chushka (English, German, Russian – culinary texts)
• fun – kef (English, German, Turkish, Greek – colloquial “pleasure”)