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First attested in Câmi-ül Fürs (1501) as بقلغی(baklağı), later also in Lügat-i Ni'metu'llâh (1540) as بقلغو(baklağu), with the same meaning.[1] For the development of the ending compare Turkishoklava from earlier اقلاغی(oklağı).[2]
Usually considered a word of unknown ultimate origin. [3][4][2][5][6][7]
Another etymology is that it's borrowed from Middle Mongolᠪᠠᠭᠯᠠᠭᠠ(baɣlag-a, “bundle, package”), originally from ᠪᠠᠭ(bag, “covering”) + ᠯᠤᠭᠠ(-lug-a), literally “with covering”;[8] itself a borrowing[9] from Old Turkic𐰉𐰍𐰞𐰀(baɣla-, “to tie”), with a -v suffix, whence also Ottoman Turkishباغلامق(bağlamak, “to tie”).
^ “baklağı”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212) (in Turkish), volume I, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963, page 384
↑ 2.02.1Eren, Hasan (1999) “baklava”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 34a
^ Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 19) (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 708
^ Eilers, W., Ramazani, N. (1988) “Bāqlavā”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, New York
^ Tietze, Andreas (2002) “baklava”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul, Vienna: Simurg Kitapçılık, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 268a
^ Stachowski, Marek (2019) “baklava”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →DOI, page 75b
^ Paul D. Buell, "Mongol Empire and Turkicization: The Evidence of Food and Foodways", p. 200ff, in Amitai-Preiss, 1999
^ Süxbaatar, O. (1997) “багла-”, in D. Tömörtogoo, L. Xürelbaatar, B. Amaržargal, editors, Mongol xelnii xarʹ ügiin tolʹ [Dictionary of foreign words in Mongolian], Ulaanbaatar: Admon kompani, page 25
