Balkan
adjUK /ˈbɒlkən/ · US /ˈbɔlkən/
Etymology From Ottoman Turkish بالقان, modern Turkish balkan (“wooded, craggy mountain range”), from which the name of the region of Turkmenistan is derived, too.
1
Of or relating to the Balkan Peninsula.
- A man shot dead 12 people in a rampage in a small town in Montenegro before dying from self-inflicted injuries early on Thursday, authorities said, in one of the tiny Balkan nation’s worst mass killings.2025 January 1, Reuters, “Suspect in Montenegro shooting dies from self-inflicted injuries after killing at least 12 people”, in CNN:
2
Of or relating to the Balkan Mountains.
3
Of or relating to the Balkan countries and their inhabitants.
- Derived terms
- Balkan Egyptian, Balkan endemic nephropathy, Balkaner, Balkan green lizard, Balkan heath, Balkanian, Balkanic, Balkanization, Balkan pine, Paleo-Balkan