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baklawa

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ba⋅kla⋅va

[bah-kluh-vah, bah-kluh-vah]
–noun
a Near Eastern pastry made of many layers of paper-thin dough with a filling of ground nuts, baked and then drenched in a syrup of honey and sometimes rosewater.
Also, ba⋅kla⋅wa [bah-kluh-vah, bah-kluh-vah] .


Origin:
1815–25; < Turk
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