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Persian baklava

This is a list of words that have entered into the English persian baklava from the Turkic languages. Many of them came via traders and soldiers from and in the Ottoman Empire.

This section needs additional citations for verification. Languages of Turkic peoples left numerous traces in different languages, including the English language. Turkic borrowings, which belong to the social and political vocabulary, are generally used in special literature and in the historical and ethnographical works, which relate to the life of Turkic and Muslim peoples. Turkic borrowings, became one of the ways for the words of the Turkic origin to penetrate English.

Additionally, several words of Turkic origin penetrated English through Central or Eastern European languages like Russian and Polish. In the nineteenth century, Turkic loanwords, generally of Turkish origin, began to penetrate not only through the writings of the travelers, diplomats and merchants, and through the ethnographical and historical works, but also through the press. Most of the Turkic loans in English carry exotic or ethnographical connotations. They do not have equivalents in English, do not have synonymic relations with primordial words, and generally are used to describe the fauna, flora, life customs, political and social life, and an administrative-territorial structure of Turkic regions. But there are many Turkic loans, which are still part of the frequently used vocabulary. To conclude, the words of the Turkic origin began penetrating English as early as the Middle Ages, the Turkic loanwords found their way into English through other languages, most frequently through French. Since the 16c, beginning from the time of the establishment of the direct contacts between England and Turkey, and Russia, in English appeared new direct borrowings from Turkic languages.

Afshar from Turkic Afshar, “a Turkic tribe living majorly in Kerman province of Iran”. A Shiraz rug of coarse weave. Arnaut from Turkish arnavut, “an Albanian”. An inhabitant of Albania and neighboring mountainous regions, especially an Albanian serving in the Turkish army. Bahadur from Hindi bahādur “brave, brave person”, from Persian, probably from Mongolian, cf. Registration of boys for the devshirmeh.

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