باقلوا

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

باقلاوا (baklava), بقلاوا (baklava), بقلوا (baklava), بقلاوه (baklava)
بقلغی (baklağı), بقلغو (baklağu)

Etymology

First attested in Câmi-ül Fürs (1501) as بقلغی (baklağı), later also in Lügat-i Ni'metu'llâh (1540) as بقلغو (baklağu), with the same meaning.^[1] For the development of the ending compare Turkish oklava from earlier اقلاغی (oklağı).^[2]

Usually considered a word of unknown ultimate origin. ^[3]^[4]^[2]^[5]^[6]^[7]
Another etymology is that it's borrowed from Middle Mongol ᠪᠠᠭᠯᠠᠭ᠎ᠠ (baɣlag-a, “bundle, package”), originally from ᠪᠠᠭ (bag, “covering”) +‎ ᠯᠤᠭ᠎ᠠ (-lug-a), literally “with covering”;^[8] itself a borrowing^[9] from Old Turkic 𐰉𐰍𐰞𐰀 (baɣla-, “to tie”), with a -v suffix, whence also Ottoman Turkish باغلامق (bağlamak, “to tie”).

Noun

باقلوا • (baklava)

baklava

Descendants

Turkish: baklava, baklavu, baklavı, paklavı, baklağı, paklağu, paklava, paḫlava, pahlava, paklo (dialectal)
→ Albanian: bakllava
→ Arabic: بَقْلَاوَة (baqlāwa)
→ Armenian: փախլավա (pʻaxlava)
→? Azerbaijani: paxlava
→ Aromanian: bãclãvã
→ Bulgarian: баклава́ (baklavá)
→ English: baklava
→ Hijazi Arabic: بقلاوة (biglāwa)
→ Georgian: ფახლავა (paxlava)
→ Greek: μπακλαβάς (baklavás)
→ Laz: ბაქლავა (baklava), ბაკლავა (baǩlava)
→ Macedonian: баклава (baklava)
→ Persian: باقلوا (bâqlavâ)
→ Romanian: baclava

References

^ “baklağı”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎^[1] (in Turkish), volume I, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963, page 384
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Eren, Hasan (1999) “baklava”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 34a
^ Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 19)‎^[2] (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 708
^ Eilers, W., Ramazani, N. (1988) “Bāqlavā”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, New York
^ Tietze, Andreas (2002) “baklava”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul, Vienna: Simurg Kitapçılık, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 268a
^ Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “baklava”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
^ Stachowski, Marek (2019) “baklava”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →DOI, page 75b
^ Paul D. Buell, "Mongol Empire and Turkicization: The Evidence of Food and Foodways", p. 200ff, in Amitai-Preiss, 1999
^ Süxbaatar, O. (1997) “багла-”, in D. Tömörtogoo, L. Xürelbaatar, B. Amaržargal, editors, Mongol xelnii xarʹ ügiin tolʹ [Dictionary of foreign words in Mongolian]‎^[3], Ulaanbaatar: Admon kompani, page 25

Persian

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باقلوا

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Alternative forms

باقلبا (bâqlabâ)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish باقلوا (baklava).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [bɑːq.la.ˈwɑː]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bɑːq.lä.wɑ́ː]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bɑːq.lä.wɑ́ː]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bɔːq.lä.wɔ́ː]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bɒːʁ.læ.vɒ́ː]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bɔq.lä.vɔ́]

Readings
Classical reading^?	bāqlawā
Dari reading^?	bāqlawā
Iranian reading^?	bâğlavâ
Tajik reading^?	boqlavo

Noun

باقلوا • (bâqlavâ)

baklava

[1] “baklağı”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎^[1] (in Turkish), volume I, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963, page 384

[Eren-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Eren, Hasan (1999) “baklava”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 34a

[3] Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 19)‎^[2] (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 708

[4] Eilers, W., Ramazani, N. (1988) “Bāqlavā”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, New York

[5] Tietze, Andreas (2002) “baklava”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul, Vienna: Simurg Kitapçılık, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 268a

[6] Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “baklava”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı

[7] Stachowski, Marek (2019) “baklava”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →DOI, page 75b

[8] Paul D. Buell, "Mongol Empire and Turkicization: The Evidence of Food and Foodways", p. 200ff, in Amitai-Preiss, 1999

[9] Süxbaatar, O. (1997) “багла-”, in D. Tömörtogoo, L. Xürelbaatar, B. Amaržargal, editors, Mongol xelnii xarʹ ügiin tolʹ [Dictionary of foreign words in Mongolian]‎^[3], Ulaanbaatar: Admon kompani, page 25

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