Balkan
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɒlkən/, /ˈbɔːlkən/
Audio (Southern England); /ˈbɒlkən/: (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈbɔlkən/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈbɑlkən/
- Rhymes: -ɒlkən, -ɔːlkən
Etymology 1
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish بالقان, modern Turkish balkan (“wooded, craggy mountain range”).
Adjective
[edit]Balkan (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the Balkan Peninsula
- Of or relating to the Balkan Mountains
- Of or relating to the Balkan countries and their inhabitants
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]of or relating to the Balkan Peninsula
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Etymology 2
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Balkan (uncountable)
- A region of Turkmenistan.
Translations
[edit]Region of Turkmenistan
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish بالقان.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Balkan
- the Balkans (a geographical region in Southeast Europe)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Balkan (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Balkan | — | |
genitive | Balkanin | — | |
partitive | Balkania | — | |
illative | Balkaniin | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Balkan | — | |
accusative | nom. | Balkan | — |
gen. | Balkanin | ||
genitive | Balkanin | — | |
partitive | Balkania | — | |
inessive | Balkanissa | — | |
elative | Balkanista | — | |
illative | Balkaniin | — | |
adessive | Balkanilla | — | |
ablative | Balkanilta | — | |
allative | Balkanille | — | |
essive | Balkanina | — | |
translative | Balkaniksi | — | |
abessive | Balkanitta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms
[edit]compounds
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Balkan m (proper noun, strong, genitive Balkans)
- the Balkans (a geographical region in Southeast Europe)
- Balkan Peninsula (a peninsula in Southeast Europe)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Balkan [sg-only, masculine, strong]
Derived terms
[edit]Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Balkan
- the Balkans (a geographical region in Southeast Europe)
Derived terms
[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Balkan
- the Balkans (a geographical region in Southeast Europe)
Derived terms
[edit]Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Bàlkān m (Cyrillic spelling Ба̀лка̄н) (uncountable)
- the Balkans (a geographical region in Southeast Europe)
- Balkan Peninsula (a peninsula in Southeast Europe)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Balkan
References
[edit]- “Balkan”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
Swedish
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Balkan n (genitive Balkans)
- Balkan Peninsula (a peninsula in Southeast Europe)
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɒlkən
- Rhymes:English/ɒlkən/2 syllables
- Rhymes:English/ɔːlkən
- Rhymes:English/ɔːlkən/2 syllables
- English terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- English uncomparable adjectives
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Regions of Turkmenistan
- en:Places in Turkmenistan
- English relational adjectives
- en:Europe
- Finnish terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑlkɑn
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑlkɑn/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- fi:Regions of Europe
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- Finnish uncountable nouns
- German 2-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio pronunciation
- German lemmas
- German proper nouns
- German masculine nouns
- de:Regions of Europe
- de:Peninsulas
- German uncountable nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål proper nouns
- nb:Regions of Europe
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk proper nouns
- nn:Regions of Europe
- Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian proper nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns
- Serbo-Croatian uncountable nouns
- sh:Regions of Europe
- sh:Peninsulas
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish neuter nouns
- sv:Peninsulas