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The Tolkovyi Slovar' states that the Russian word for balcony (balkon) is borrowed from Italian, which took it from Persian, not the Germanic languages.
The Russko-Angliiskii Slovar', compiled under the general direction of Professor A.I. Smirnitsky (Sixth Edition; E.P. Dutton & Co, New York, 1959), defines the Russian word in English as follows:
The entry for the Russian word in the Tolkovyi Slovar' Russkogo Yazyka (Moscow, 1935), reads as follows, as transliterated and translated:
So which authorities are right, the American dictionaries or the Tolkovyi Slovar'?
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'?