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baklava

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈbæk.lə.və/
  • /ˈbɑk.lə.və/
  • /bəˈklɑː.və/
  • /ˈbɑk.ləˌvɑː/
  • /ˌbɑk.ləˈvɑː/
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  • rhymes with -ɑːvə

1

noun

Meaning 1

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

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

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

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish baklava, from Ottoman Turkish باقلوا (baklava) (see for more); possibly from Middle Mongol ᠪᠠᠭᠯᠠᠭ᠎ᠠ (baɣlaɣ-a, “bundle, package”).

Across languages

Translations

77 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: bakllava — sweet pastry
  • Arabic: بَقْلَاوَة (baqlāwa) — sweet pastry
  • Arabic: بقلاوة (biglāwa) — sweet pastry
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܲܩܠܵܘܵܐ (baqlāwā) — sweet pastry
  • Armenian: փախլավա (pʻaxlava) — sweet pastry
  • Azerbaijani: paxlava — sweet pastry
  • Azerbaijani: пахлава — sweet pastry
  • Belarusian: пахлава́ (paxlavá) — sweet pastry
  • Bengali: বাক্লাভা (baklabha) — sweet pastry
  • Bulgarian: баклава́ (baklavá) — sweet pastry
  • Catalan: baclaua — sweet pastry
  • Chinese Mandarin: 果仁蜜餅 /果仁蜜饼 (guǒrénmìbǐng) — sweet pastry
  • Chinese Mandarin: 蜜糖果仁千層酥 /蜜糖果仁千层酥 (mìtáng guǒrén qiāncéngsū) — sweet pastry
  • Chinese Mandarin: 巴拉瓦餅 /巴拉瓦饼 (bālāwǎ bǐng) — sweet pastry
  • Chinese Mandarin: 巴卡拉瓦 (bākǎlāwǎ) — sweet pastry
  • West Circassian: бэкълауэ (bɛqlawɛ) — sweet pastry
  • Czech: baklava — sweet pastry
  • Danish: baklava — sweet pastry
  • Dutch: baklava — sweet pastry
  • Esperanto: baklavo — sweet pastry
  • Esperanto: paĥlavo — sweet pastry
  • Finnish: baklava — sweet pastry
  • French: baklava — sweet pastry
  • Galician: baclava — sweet pastry
  • Georgian: ფახლავა (paxlava) — sweet pastry
  • German: Baklava — sweet pastry
  • Greek: μπακλαβάς (baklavás) — sweet pastry
  • Hebrew: בַּקְלָוָה (baklavá) — sweet pastry
  • Hebrew: בקלאווה — sweet pastry
  • Hindi: बक़लावा (baqlāvā) — sweet pastry
  • Hungarian: baklava — sweet pastry
  • Indonesian: baklava — sweet pastry
  • Italian: baklava — sweet pastry
  • Japanese: バクラヴァ (bakurava) — sweet pastry
  • Kazakh: баклава (baklava) — sweet pastry
  • Korean: 바클라바 (bakeullaba) — sweet pastry
  • Krymchak: бакълава — sweet pastry
  • Northern Kurdish: beqlewe — sweet pastry
  • Northern Kurdish: beqlawe — sweet pastry
  • Northern Kurdish: peqlewe — sweet pastry
  • Kyrgyz: баклава (baklava) — sweet pastry
  • Laz: ბაქლავა (baklava) — sweet pastry
  • Macedonian: баклава (baklava) — sweet pastry
  • Malay: baklava — sweet pastry
  • Mongolian: баклава (baklava) — sweet pastry
  • Norwegian Bokmål: baklava — sweet pastry
  • Dari: بَاقْلَوَا (bāqlawā) — sweet pastry
  • Iranian Persian: بَاقْلَوا (bâġlavâ) — sweet pastry
  • Iranian Persian: باقْلَبا (bâġlabâ) — sweet pastry
  • Polish: baklawa — sweet pastry
  • Polish: baklava — sweet pastry
  • Portuguese: baclava — sweet pastry
  • Romanian: baclava — sweet pastry
  • Russian: пахлава́ (paxlavá) — sweet pastry
  • Russian: баклава́ (baklavá) — sweet pastry
  • Serbo-Croatian: бакла̀ва — sweet pastry
  • Serbo-Croatian: baklàva — sweet pastry
  • Slovak: baklava — sweet pastry
  • Slovene: baklava — sweet pastry
  • Somali: baklawah — sweet pastry
  • Spanish: baclava — sweet pastry
  • Swedish: baklava — sweet pastry
  • Tajik: бағлоба (baġloba) — sweet pastry
  • Tajik: бақлава (baqlava) — sweet pastry
  • Tajik: боқлаво (boqlavo) — sweet pastry
  • Tatar: пәхләвә (päxläwä) — sweet pastry
  • Thai: บาคลาวา (bàak-laa-waa) — sweet pastry
  • Turkish: baklava — sweet pastry
  • Ottoman Turkish: باقلوا (baklava) — sweet pastry
  • Ukrainian: пахлава́ (paxlavá) — sweet pastry
  • Ukrainian: баклава́ (baklavá) — sweet pastry
  • Urdu: بَقْلاوَہ (baqlāva) — sweet pastry
  • Uyghur: باكلاۋا (baklawa) — sweet pastry
  • Uyghur: باقلاۋا (baqlawa) — sweet pastry
  • Uzbek: paxlava — sweet pastry
  • Vietnamese: baklava — sweet pastry
  • Yiddish: באַקלאַוואַ (baklava) — sweet pastry