Armenian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From a dialectal form of Ottoman Turkish باقلوا (baklava). Compare dialectal Turkish paklava, paḫlava.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

փախլավա (pʻaxlava)

  1. baklava

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Russian: пахлава́ (paxlavá) (partly)

Further reading edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “փախլավա”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages