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Did the Italians take their word balcone from some Germanic tongue and pass it on into English, Russian, and other languages; or did Italian take the word from the Persian balahana , as Russian did balagan , at least according to the Tolkovyi Slovar'?
My guess is that the joker who named the program Balagan was a Russian-speaking immigrant, either to Israel or America, who may well have been aware of the word's currency in modern Hebrew but for whom the meaning remained the Russian one.
Balagan, 1. (wooden structure) booth; (for presentations) show-booth; 2. show; (extended meaning) farce, tomfoolery, preposterous piece of buffoonery.
More frustrating, Balagan allowed me to proceed nowhere.
And in Yiddish, balagan means mess, bedlam.