Where does “balkanmakkara” come from?

balkanmakkara (Finnish) comes from Finnish Balkan, from Ottoman Turkish بالقان — The Balkan mountains.

balkanmakkara (Finnish): Balkan sausage, cevapi

Definitions

  1. Balkan sausage, cevapi

Ancestry of “balkanmakkara”, step by step

balkanmakkara traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish Balkan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishBalkan—
2Ottoman TurkishبالقانThe Balkan mountains

via Finnish makkara

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmakkarasausage
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