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The 1938 edition of the Soviet Tolkovyi Slovar' Russkogo Yazyka defines nomenclatura as The totality of appellations employed in any specialization.
The 1935 edition of the four-volume Tolkovyi Slovar' Russkogo Yazyka (`Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language') defines glasnost' as: “Accessibility to public discussion and evaluation; publicity.”
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'?
The Tolkovyi Slovar' states that the Russian word for balcony (balkon) is borrowed from Italian, which took it from Persian, not the Germanic languages.
Also interesting is the indication in the Tolkovyi Slovar' that the word is of Persian origin and that in Persian it means balcony.