Balkans

Etymology
Of origin; compare 🇨🇬. Probably unrelated to.

Proper noun

 * , roughly equivalent to the area covered by Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, sometimes including Romania, Slovenia, and European Turkey.

Usage notes

 * Used with the definite article and construed as a plural.

Translations

 * Acehnese: Balkan
 * Afrikaans: Balkan
 * Albanian: Ballkan
 * Amharic: ባልካኖች
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: البلقان
 * Hijazi Arabic: الْبَلْقَان
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: Balcanes
 * Azerbaijani: Balkanlar
 * Basque: Balkanak
 * Belarusian: Балка́ны
 * Bengali: বলকান
 * Breton: Balkanioù
 * Bulgarian: Балка́ни
 * Catalan: Balcans
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Balkan
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: Balkanio
 * Estonian: Balkan
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ბალკანეთი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: Χερσόνησος τοῦ Αἵμου
 * Hebrew: הבלקן
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: Balkan
 * Interlingua: Balkanes
 * Irish: Balcáin
 * Italian:
 * Jamaican Creole: Balkans
 * Japanese: バルカン半島
 * Javanese: Balkan
 * Kazakh: Балқандар
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: بالکان
 * Ladino: Balkanos
 * Latvian: Balkāni
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lombard: Balcan
 * Luxembourgish: Balkan
 * Macedonian: Балкан
 * Malagasy: Balkana
 * Malay: Balkan
 * Malayalam: ബാൾക്കൻ
 * Marathi: बाल्कन
 * Mazanderani: بالکان
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: Balkan
 * Nynorsk: Balkan
 * Occitan:
 * Ottoman Turkish: بالقان
 * Pashto: بالکان
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Brazilian: Bálcãs
 * European: Balcãs
 * Punjabi: ਬਾਲਕਨ
 * Romanian: Balcani, Peninsula Balcanică
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian: Balcanos
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Ба̀лка̄н
 * Roman:
 * Silesian: Bałkany
 * Slovak: Balkán
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: Balkani
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: బాల్కన్లు
 * Thai: บอลข่าน
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: Балка́ни
 * Urdu: بَلْقان
 * Vietnamese: Balkan
 * Welsh:
 * Western Panjabi: بلقان
 * Yakut: Балкаан