بالقان
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle Turkic *balkan (“swamp, rugged place, name of a mountain”), from Old Turkic *bal- (“to cling, to be runny”), probably related to Proto-Turkic *bālïk (“fish”)[1] Cognate with balık.
Proper noun
[edit]بالقان • (balkan)
- The Balkan mountains
Noun
[edit]بالقان • (balkan)
- a wooded mountain range
- a pass through a wooded mountain range
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: balkan
- → Arabic: البَلْقَان (al-balqān)
- → English: Balkan
References
[edit]- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “balkan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بالقان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 247
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بالقان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 335