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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'?
The entry for the Russian word in the Tolkovyi Slovar' Russkogo Yazyka (Moscow, 1935), reads as follows, as transliterated and translated:
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.
So which authorities are right, the American dictionaries or the Tolkovyi Slovar'?