بالقان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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

بالقان • (balkan)

  1. The Balkan mountains
    • 1914 May 29, Sergey Sazonov, quotee, “روسیه‌نك شرق سیاستی [Russia's eastern diplomacy]”, in Peyam, page 1:
      بالجمله بالقان حكومتلرینه قارشی بی طرفانه اوله‌رق معاماهٔ نوازتكارانه‌ده بولمق عنعناتی اقتصاسندندر.
      Bilcümle Balkan hükûmetlerine karşı bitarafa olarak muamele-i nevazişgaranede bulmak ananat iktizasındandır.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Noun

بالقان • (balkan)

  1. a wooded mountain range
  2. a pass through a wooded mountain range

Descendants

  • Turkish: balkan
  • → Arabic: البَلْقَان (al-balqān)
  • → English: Balkan

References

  1. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “balkan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

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