потурнак

поту́ри (potúri, “culottes, a kind of pants supposed to be worn in particular by Turkicized people”) +‎ -нак (-nak), so it has been reinterpreted as поту́рча се (potúrča se, “to convert into a Türk”) +‎ -нак (-nak).

• IPA^(key): [potorˈnak]

потурна́к • (poturnák) m

1. (religious slur) Bulgarian who has converted to Islam and has decided to self-identify as a Türk

The term has negative connotations. For a Bulgarian muslim, who has converted to Islam but has preserved their native language and identity, the non-pejorative term Bulgarian пома́к (pomák) is used.

• пома́к (pomák, “Bulgarian muslim”)

• “потурнак”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “потурнак”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010