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A sweet pastry found in many cuisines of the Middle East and the Balkans, made of chopped nuts layered with phyllo pastry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
rich Middle Eastern cake made of thin layers of flaky pastry filled with nuts and honey
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pastry
Borrowed from Turkish baklava, from Ottoman Turkish باقلوا (baklava) (see for more); possibly from Middle Mongol ᠪᠠᠭᠯᠠᠭᠠ (baɣlaɣ-a, “bundle, package”).
Across languages
Translations
77 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Albanian:
bakllava
— sweet pastry
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Arabic:
بَقْلَاوَة
(baqlāwa)
— sweet pastry
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Arabic:
بقلاوة
(biglāwa)
— sweet pastry
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Assyrian Neo-Aramaic:
ܒܲܩܠܵܘܵܐ
(baqlāwā)
— sweet pastry
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Armenian:
փախլավա
(pʻaxlava)
— sweet pastry
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Azerbaijani:
paxlava
— sweet pastry
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Azerbaijani:
пахлава
— sweet pastry
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Belarusian:
пахлава́
(paxlavá)
— sweet pastry
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Bengali:
বাক্লাভা
(baklabha)
— sweet pastry
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Bulgarian:
баклава́
(baklavá)
— sweet pastry
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Catalan:
baclaua
— sweet pastry
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Chinese Mandarin:
果仁蜜餅 /果仁蜜饼
(guǒrénmìbǐng)
— sweet pastry
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Chinese Mandarin:
蜜糖果仁千層酥 /蜜糖果仁千层酥
(mìtáng guǒrén qiāncéngsū)
— sweet pastry
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Chinese Mandarin:
巴拉瓦餅 /巴拉瓦饼
(bālāwǎ bǐng)
— sweet pastry
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Chinese Mandarin:
巴卡拉瓦
(bākǎlāwǎ)
— sweet pastry
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West Circassian:
бэкълауэ
(bɛqlawɛ)
— sweet pastry
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Czech:
baklava
— sweet pastry
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Danish:
baklava
— sweet pastry
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Dutch:
baklava
— sweet pastry
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Esperanto:
baklavo
— sweet pastry
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Esperanto:
paĥlavo
— sweet pastry
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Finnish:
baklava
— sweet pastry
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French:
baklava
— sweet pastry
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Galician:
baclava
— sweet pastry
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Georgian:
ფახლავა
(paxlava)
— sweet pastry
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German:
Baklava
— sweet pastry
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Greek:
μπακλαβάς
(baklavás)
— sweet pastry
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Hebrew:
בַּקְלָוָה
(baklavá)
— sweet pastry
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Hebrew:
בקלאווה
— sweet pastry
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Hindi:
बक़लावा
(baqlāvā)
— sweet pastry
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Hungarian:
baklava
— sweet pastry
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Indonesian:
baklava
— sweet pastry
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Italian:
baklava
— sweet pastry
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Japanese:
バクラヴァ
(bakurava)
— sweet pastry
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Kazakh:
баклава
(baklava)
— sweet pastry
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Korean:
바클라바
(bakeullaba)
— sweet pastry
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Krymchak:
бакълава
— sweet pastry
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Northern Kurdish:
beqlewe
— sweet pastry
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Northern Kurdish:
beqlawe
— sweet pastry
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Northern Kurdish:
peqlewe
— sweet pastry
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Kyrgyz:
баклава
(baklava)
— sweet pastry
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Laz:
ბაქლავა
(baklava)
— sweet pastry
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Macedonian:
баклава
(baklava)
— sweet pastry
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Malay:
baklava
— sweet pastry
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Mongolian:
баклава
(baklava)
— sweet pastry
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Norwegian Bokmål:
baklava
— sweet pastry
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Dari:
بَاقْلَوَا
(bāqlawā)
— sweet pastry
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Iranian Persian:
بَاقْلَوا
(bâġlavâ)
— sweet pastry
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Iranian Persian:
باقْلَبا
(bâġlabâ)
— sweet pastry
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Polish:
baklawa
— sweet pastry
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Polish:
baklava
— sweet pastry
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Portuguese:
baclava
— sweet pastry
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Romanian:
baclava
— sweet pastry
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Russian:
пахлава́
(paxlavá)
— sweet pastry
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Russian:
баклава́
(baklavá)
— sweet pastry
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Serbo-Croatian:
бакла̀ва
— sweet pastry
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Serbo-Croatian:
baklàva
— sweet pastry
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Slovak:
baklava
— sweet pastry
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Slovene:
baklava
— sweet pastry
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Somali:
baklawah
— sweet pastry
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Spanish:
baclava
— sweet pastry
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Swedish:
baklava
— sweet pastry
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Tajik:
бағлоба
(baġloba)
— sweet pastry
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Tajik:
бақлава
(baqlava)
— sweet pastry
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Tajik:
боқлаво
(boqlavo)
— sweet pastry
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Tatar:
пәхләвә
(päxläwä)
— sweet pastry
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Thai:
บาคลาวา
(bàak-laa-waa)
— sweet pastry
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Turkish:
baklava
— sweet pastry
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Ottoman Turkish:
باقلوا
(baklava)
— sweet pastry
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Ukrainian:
пахлава́
(paxlavá)
— sweet pastry
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Ukrainian:
баклава́
(baklavá)
— sweet pastry
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Urdu:
بَقْلاوَہ
(baqlāva)
— sweet pastry
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Uyghur:
باكلاۋا
(baklawa)
— sweet pastry
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Uyghur:
باقلاۋا
(baqlawa)
— sweet pastry
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Uzbek:
paxlava
— sweet pastry
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Vietnamese:
baklava
— sweet pastry
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Yiddish:
באַקלאַוואַ
(baklava)
— sweet pastry