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)

The Balkan mountains

Noun

بالقان • (balkan)

a wooded mountain range
a pass through a wooded mountain range

Descendants

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

References

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

Further reading

Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بالقان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 247
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بالقان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 335

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