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Balkan
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balkan Balkán
English
Etymology
From en ota بالقان, modern tr balkan wooded, craggy mountain range, from which the name of the region of Turkmenistan is derived, too.
Pronunciation
en /ˈbɒlkən/ /ˈbɔːlkən/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Balkan.wav Southern England /ˈbɒlkən/
en /ˈbɔlkən/ US
en /ˈbɑlkən/ cot-caught
en ɒlkən ɔːlkən 2
Adjective
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Of or relating to the Balkan Peninsula.
en Reuters Suspect in Montenegro shooting dies from self-inflicted injuries after killing at least 12 people w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/01/world/montenegro-shooting-new-years-day-intl/index.html 2025-01-01 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20250828083826/https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/01/world/montenegro-shooting-new-years-day-intl/index.html 28 August 2025
Of or relating to the Balkan Mountains.
Of or relating to the Balkan countries and their inhabitants.
Synonyms
en Balkanic, en Balkanian
Derived terms
en Balkan Egyptian Balkanic Balkanian Balkaner Paleo-Balkan Balkan heath Balkanist Balkanistics Balkanization Balkan pine Balkan endemic nephropathy Balkan green lizard Balkanisation Balkanise Balkanism balkanite Balkanite Balkanize Balkano- Balkanoid Balkanology
Translations
of or relating to the Balkan Peninsula
Albanian: sq ballkanik, sq ballkanas
Arabic: ar بَلْقَانِي m
Hijazi Arabic: acw بَلْقاني m balgāni
Belarusian: be балка́нскі
Bengali: bn বলকানী bôlkanī
Bulgarian: bg балка́нски
Catalan: ca balcànic
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 巴爾幹 Bā'ěrgàn
Czech: cs balkánský
Danish: da Balkan
Dutch: nl Balkanees
Esperanto: eo balkana
Finnish: fi Balkanin, fi balkanilainen
French: fr balkanique
German: de balkanisch
Greek: el βαλκανικός
Hebrew: he בַּלְקָנִי balkani
Hindi: hi बाल्कन
Hungarian: hu balkán
Irish: ga Balcánach
Italian: it balcanico
Lithuanian: lt balkanai
Macedonian: mk балкански
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb balkansk
Nynorsk: nn balkansk
Polish: pl bałkański
Portuguese: pt balcânico
Romanian: ro balcanic
Russian: ru балка́нский
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh ба̀лка̄нскӣ
Latin: sh bàlkānskī
Slovak: sk balkánsky
Slovene: sl balkánski
Spanish: es balcánico
Turkish: tr Balkan
Ukrainian: uk балка́нський
Urdu: ur بَلْقانی m f balqānī
Welsh: cy Balcanaidd
Proper noun
en rare The Balkans. This form is often used in international contexts perhaps because the languages native to the region also use a singular form.
en region c/Turkmenistan.
Translations
Region of Turkmenistan
Russian: ru Балка́нский велая́т
Turkmen: tk Balkan welaýaty
Cyrillic: tk Балкан велаяты
en relational adjectives
en Europe
Finnish
fi:
Etymology
From fi ota بالقان.
Pronunciation
balk(:)an
Proper noun
fi Balkans Q23522
Declension
sg Balkan a 0
Derived terms
fi balkanilainen
fi compounds balkaninhevoskastanja balkaninmyyrä balkaninnäsiä balkaninruohomyyrä balkaninsieppo balkaninsokkomyllikäs balkanintiainen balkanintunnelimyyrä balkaninuunilintu balkanmakkara
German
Pronunciation
de /ˈbalˌkaːn/
de De-Balkan.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de Bal kan
Proper noun
m
de Balkans Q23522
Declension
m.sg
Derived terms
de Balkanese Balkanhalbinsel balkanisch balkanisieren Balkansprachbund Balkanstaat
Norwegian Bokmål
no:
Proper noun
nb proper noun
nb Balkans Q23522
Derived terms
nb balkansk
Norwegian Nynorsk
nn:
Proper noun
nn proper noun
nn Balkans Q23522
Derived terms
nn balkansk
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Bàlkān
sh Bal kan
Proper noun
Bàlkān m-in sh uncountable
sh Balkans Q23522
Declension
Bàlkān Balkána Balkanu Balkan Balkane Balkanu Balkanom
References
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Slovene
Pronunciation
Balkán
Proper noun
Balkán m-in
sl Balkans Q23522
Declension
Balkán sg
Related terms
sl Balkánec / sl Balkánka
sl balkánski
References
Swedish
Proper noun
n
sv Balkans Q23522
Anagrams
sv aabkln blanka