2024-11-07

Category: Armenia

Baklava Baklava
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Baklava

The word baklava is first attested in English in 1650, a borrowing from Ottoman Turkish باقلاوه /bɑːklɑvɑː/.The name baklava is used in many languages with minor phonetic and spelling variations. Historian Paul D. Buell argues that the word “baklava” may come from the Mongolian root baγla- ‘to tie, wrap up, pile up’ composed with the […]

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