balcon

See also: balcón and Balcon

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Germanic *balkô

Frankish *balkōbor.

Medieval Latin balcōlbor.

Italian balconebor.

French balconbor.

English balcon

Borrowed from French balcon.

Noun

balcon (plural balcons)

1. Obsolete form of balcony.
   • 1665 June 1, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys‎^[1], volume 5, Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1885, pages 33–34:

     That done, we walked to Cornehill, and there at Mr. Cade’s stood in the balcon and saw all the funeral, which was with the blue-coat boys and old men, all the Aldermen, and Lord Mayor, &c., and the number of the company very great; the greatest I ever did see for a taverne.

Anagrams

• Blacon, Blanco, blanco

French

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Germanic *balkô

Frankish *balkōbor.

Medieval Latin balcōlbor.

Italian balconebor.

French balcon

Borrowed from Italian balcone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bal.kɔ̃/

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Noun

balcon m (plural balcons)

1. (architecture) balcony

Derived terms

• avoir du monde au balcon

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: balkon
• → Danish: balkon
  • → Greenlandic: balkonngi
• → Dutch: balkon
• → German: Balkon
• → Ottoman Turkish: بالقون (balkon)
  • Turkish: balkon
  • → Albanian: ballkon
• → Persian: بالکن (bâlkon)
• → Polish: balkon
• → Romanian: balcon
• → Russian: балко́н (balkón)
  • → Armenian: բալկոն (balkon)
  • → Azerbaijani: balkon
  • → Georgian: ბალკონი (balḳoni)
  • → Kazakh: балкон (balkon)
• → Swedish: balkong
• → Vietnamese: ban công

Further reading

• “balcon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Friulian

Etymology

Of Germanic origin; possibly from Lombardic balko (“beam”), from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”). Compare Venetan balcon.

Noun

balcon m (plural balcons)

1. window

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Germanic *balkô

Frankish *balkōbor.

Medieval Latin balcōlbor.

Italian balconebor.

French balconbor.

Romanian balcon

Borrowed from French balcon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /balˈkon/

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Noun

balcon n (plural balcoane)

1. (architecture) balcony

   El stă pe balcon.

   He is sitting on the balcony.

2. (slang) boob, tit

   Are niște balcoane imense!

   She has huge tits!

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	balcon	balconul	balcoane	balcoanele
genitive-dative	balcon	balconului	balcoane	balcoanelor
vocative	balconule		balcoanelor

Venetan

Alternative forms

• balcón, barcon, barcón

Etymology

Borrowed from Lombardic balko, from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”). Compare Italian balcone.

Noun

balcon m (plural balconi) (Alternative plural: balcuni)

1. window
2. shutter

Synonyms

• finestra, fenestra

Zazaki

Alternative forms

• bancan

Etymology

Ultimately from Sanskrit वङ्गन (vaṅgana).

Noun

balcon

1. eggplant