Балкан

• IPA^(key): [bɐɫˈkan]

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• Rhymes: -an

Балка́н • (Balkán) m

1. the Balkans (a cultural region and peninsula in Southeast Europe, roughly equivalent to the area covered by Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, sometimes including Romania, Slovenia, and European Turkey)
2. (uncountable) the Balkan Mountains (a mountain range in the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

• IPA^(key): /bǎlkaːn/

Балкан • (Balkan) (Arabic spelling بالقان)

1. the Balkans (a cultural region and peninsula in Southeast Europe, roughly equivalent to the area covered by Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, sometimes including Romania, Slovenia, and European Turkey)

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaɫkan]

Балкан • (Balkan) m (relational adjective балкански)

1. the Balkans (a cultural region and peninsula in Southeast Europe, roughly equivalent to the area covered by Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, sometimes including Romania, Slovenia, and European Turkey)

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Балкан / Balkan, from Ottoman Turkish بالقان (balkan).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbalkan]
• Rhymes: -alkan
• Hyphenation: Бал‧кан

Балкан (Balkan) m inan (related adjective балкански)

1. the Balkans (a cultural region and peninsula in Southeast Europe, roughly equivalent to the area covered by Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, sometimes including Romania, Slovenia, and European Turkey)

   Synonym: Балканске полуострово (Balkanske poluostrovo)

   • 2025 March 19, С. Фейса, “На найвисшим верху Балкана”, in Руске Слово‎^[1]:

     Медзи нїма бул и Славко Гербут з Руского Керестура хтори на Мусали, найвисшим верху на Балкану, розширел и нашу, руску заставу.

     Medzi njima bul i Slavko Herbut z Ruskoho Kerestura xtori na Musali, najvisšim verxu na Balkanu, rozširel i našu, rusku zastavu.

     Among them was Slavko Herbut from Ruski Krstur, who raised our Rusyn flag on Musala, the highest peak in the Balkans.

• Medʹeši, H., Fejsa, M. (1997) “Балканско полуострво”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Сербско-руски словнїк [Serbian-Rusyn Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 2 (О – Ш), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy, page 833

• IPA^(key): /bǎlkaːn/
• Hyphenation: Бал‧кан

Ба̀лка̄н m inan (Latin spelling Bàlkān)

1. Balkan Peninsula (a geographic region and large peninsula in southeastern Europe)
2. the Balkans (a cultural region and peninsula in Southeast Europe, roughly equivalent to the area covered by Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, sometimes including Romania, Slovenia, and European Turkey)

• “Балкан”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025