азиатец

• IPA^(key): [ɐziˈatɛt͡s]

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азиа́тец • (aziátec) m (feminine азиа́тка)

1. male person from Asia, Asian man or boy
2. (obsolete) savage, barbarian, Philistine

• The obsolete sense of “savage”, etc., was derived from enmity towards Ottoman Turks during the Ottoman occupation of Bulgaria.

• азиа́тски (aziátski)

• “азиатец”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “азиатец”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• “азиатец”, in Български тълковен речник [Bulgarian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), fourth edition, Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 2005, page 20