باقلوا
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
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]
(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) Possibly from Middle Mongol ᠪᠠᠭᠯᠠᠭᠠ (baɣlaɣ'a, “bundle, package”), originally from ᠪᠠᠭ (bag, “covering”) + ᠯᠤᠭᠠ (-luɣ'a), literally “with covering”; itself a borrowing[8] from Old Turkic 𐰉𐰍𐰞𐰀 (baɣla-, “to tie”), with a -v suffix, whence also Ottoman Turkish باغلامق (bağlamak, “to tie”).
Descendants
- Turkish: baklava, baklavu, baklavı, paklavı, baklağı, paklağu, paklava, paḫlava, pahlava, paklo
- → Arabic: بَقْلَاوَة (baqlāwa)
- → Armenian: փախլավա (pʿaxlava)
- →? 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) (in Turkish), volume I, 3rd edition, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1995, page 384
- 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) (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, , page 75b
- Süxbaatar, O. (1997), “багла-”, in D. Tömörtogoo, L. Xürelbaatar, B. Amaržargal, editors, Mongol xelnii xarʹ ügiin tolʹ [Dictionary of foreign words in Mongolian], Ulaanbaatar: Admon kompani, page 25
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “باقلوا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 245
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “baklava”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 59a
- Urban, Mateusz (2015), “The Treatment of Turkic Etymologies in English Lexicography”, in Studia Turcologica Cracoviensia, volume 15, pages 171–173
Persian

باقلوا
Alternative forms
- باقلبا (bâqlabâ)
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish باقلوا (baklava).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian): IPA(key): /bɑːqlawɑː/
- (Dari): IPA(key): /bɒːqlawɒː/
- (Iranian Persian): IPA(key): /bɒːɢlævɒː/
- (Tajik): IPA(key): /bɔːqlavɔː/
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