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Utter and complete balagan!
For a time, balagan was the most discouraging word in my vocabulary.
The article, datelined Florence, Italy, described a documentary about the legacy of the Holocaust called-- you guessed it-- Balagan.
I have just read Mr. William H. Dougherty's EPISTOLA [XXII,2] on the subject of balagan in which he refers to a previous contribution by Milton Horowitz.
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'?