Balkan

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒlkən/, /ˈbɔːlkən/

  • Audio (Southern England); /ˈbɒlkən/:

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔlkən/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑlkən/
• Rhymes: -ɒlkən, -ɔːlkən

From Ottoman Turkish بالقان, modern Turkish balkan (“wooded, craggy mountain range”).

Balkan (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the Balkan Peninsula.
   • 2025 January 1, Reuters, “Suspect in Montenegro shooting dies from self-inflicted injuries after killing at least 12 people”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     A man shot dead 12 people in a rampage in a small town in Montenegro before dying from self-inflicted injuries early on Thursday, authorities said, in one of the tiny Balkan nation’s worst mass killings.

2. Of or relating to the Balkan Mountains.
3. Of or relating to the Balkan countries and their inhabitants.

• Balkanic, Balkanian

Balkan (uncountable)

1. A region of Turkmenistan.

From Ottoman Turkish بالقان.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑlk(ː)ɑn/, [ˈbɑ̝lk(ː)ɑ̝n]
• Rhymes: -ɑlkɑn
• Syllabification^(key): Bal‧kan
• Hyphenation^(key): Bal‧kan

Balkan

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): /ˈbalˌkaːn/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Bal‧kan

Balkan m (proper noun, strong, genitive Balkans)

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)

Balkan

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)

• balkansk

Balkan

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)

• balkansk

• IPA^(key): /bǎlkaːn/
• Hyphenation: Bal‧kan

Bàlkān m inan (Cyrillic spelling Ба̀лка̄н) (uncountable)

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)

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

• IPA^(key): /balkàːn/

Balkán m inan

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)

• Balkánec / Balkánka
• balkánski

• “Balkan”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “Balkan”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Balkan n (genitive Balkans)

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)

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