Balkan
English
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish بالقان, modern Turkish balkan (“wooded, craggy mountain range”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɔːlkən/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːlkən
Adjective
Balkan (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the Balkan Peninsula
- Of or relating to the Balkan Mountains
- Of or relating to the Balkan countries and their inhabitants
Derived terms
Translations
of or relating to the Balkan Peninsula
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Finnish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish بالقان.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɑlk(ː)ɑn/, [ˈbɑlk(ː)ɑn]
- Rhymes: -ɑlkɑn
- Syllabification(key): bal‧kan
Declension
| Inflection of Balkan (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Balkan | — | |
| genitive | Balkanin | — | |
| partitive | Balkania | — | |
| illative | Balkaniin | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Balkan | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Balkan | — |
| gen. | Balkanin | ||
| genitive | Balkanin | — | |
| partitive | Balkania | — | |
| inessive | Balkanissa | — | |
| elative | Balkanista | — | |
| illative | Balkaniin | — | |
| adessive | Balkanilla | — | |
| ablative | Balkanilta | — | |
| allative | Balkanille | — | |
| essive | Balkanina | — | |
| translative | Balkaniksi | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | Balkanitta | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
| Possessive forms of Balkan (type risti) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | Balkanini | Balkanimme |
| 2nd person | Balkanisi | Balkaninne |
| 3rd person | Balkaninsa | |
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbalˌkaːn/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: Bal‧kan
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bǎlkaːn/
- Hyphenation: Bal‧kan
Proper noun
Bàlkān m (Cyrillic spelling Ба̀лка̄н)
- (uncountable) the Balkan Peninsula
- (uncountable) the Balkans
Declension
Declension of Balkan
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Bàlkān |
| genitive | Balkána |
| dative | Balkanu |
| accusative | Balkan |
| vocative | Balkane |
| locative | Balkanu |
| instrumental | Balkanom |
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