Baklaoua
/bak.laˈwa/noun
A rich layered pastry made with thin sheets of dough, nuts, butter or oil, and sweet syrup or honey.
Did you know?Baklaoua is a Maghrebi spelling of the pastry more widely known as baklava, whose deeper etymology remains disputed rather than securely explained.
Etymological Timeline
15th–16th Century
Ottoman Turkish
baklava
“A layered pastry; the earliest secure historical forms are associated with Ottoman culinary tradition.”
16th–17th Century
Arabic
baqlāwa
“A borrowed form used for the layered sweet pastry in Arabic-speaking regions.”
18th–19th Century
Persian
bāqlavā
“A regional name for the same layered pastry.”
19th–20th Century
French/Algerian Arabic
baklaoua
“Maghrebi transliteration and pronunciation of the pastry's name.”
Modern English
English
baklava
“A widely used English name for the nut-filled, syrup-soaked layered pastry.”