Turkish Borrowings in Bulgarian Lexis Related to Cuisine and Cooking

Abstract

Lexical borrowings from Turkish occupy an important place in the lexis of modern Bulgarian. Attempts to eradicate Turcisms, which had been underway for several decades, have been unsuccessful. Even systemic measures have failed. It has not been possible to replace with native lexis or lexis borrowed from other languages in particular that vocabulary which has penetrated most deeply into the consciousness of Bulgarians, that is, words used for centuries in everyday life. This compact group, saturated to the brim with Turcisms, is formed by the vocabulary related to the kitchen and its equipment as well as cooking. The author discusses lexemes from this very thematic group. They were extracted from cookbooks and monographs devoted to Bulgarian culinary traditions.