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)

  1. baklava

Descendants

References

  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
  2. 2.0 2.1 Eren, Hasan (1999) “baklava”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language]‎[2] (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)‎[3] (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]‎[4], Ulaanbaatar: Admon kompani, page 25

Further reading

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باقلوا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[5] (in French), 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[6], volume 15, pages 171–173

Persian

Alternative forms

  • باقلبا (bâqlabâ)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish باقلوا (baklava).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? bāqlawā
Dari reading? bāqlawā
Iranian reading? bâġlavâ
Tajik reading? boqlavo

Noun

باقلوا • (bâqlavâ)

  1. baklava