باقلا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَاقِلّاء (bāqillāʔ, “broad bean”), from Aramaic בקילא.

Noun

باقلا • (bakla)

1. broad bean, fava bean, any edible bean of the species Vicia faba

   Synonym: فول (ful)

2. link, a circular element of a chain or other connected series

   Synonym: حلقه (halka)

Derived terms

• باقلانی (baklani, “seller of beans”)

Descendants

• Turkish: bakla
• → Armenian: փախլա (pʻaxla)
• → Aromanian: baclã
• → Albanian: baklla
• → Bulgarian: бакла́ (baklá)
• → Macedonian: бакла (bakla)
• → Serbo-Croatian: bȁkla / ба̏кла

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bakla”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 445
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باقلا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 245
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Faba”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 537
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “باقلا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 674
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bakla”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باقلا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 332

Persian

باقلا

Etymology

From Arabic بَاقِلّاء (bāqillāʔ, “broad bean (Vicia faba)”), from Aramaic בקילא (“broad bean (Vicia faba)”).

Noun

باقلا • (bâqelâ)

1. broad bean, fava bean (Vicia faba)

   نیام باقلا ― niyâm-e bâqelâ ― bean pod