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Baklava

2 stages from Ottoman Turkish to English.

Today it means a sweet pastry made of layered filo dough, nuts, and syrup
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baklava
Ottoman Turkish · medieval
"a layered nut and syrup pastry"
a layered pastry sweetened with syrup and nuts, refined in the Ottoman palace kitchens
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baklava
English · 1900s
"a sweet, flaky, nut-filled pastry"
adopted as the pastry spread through Mediterranean and Middle Eastern communities
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