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German term or phrase:	Baliklachs
English translation:	Balik salmon
Entered by:	Karen Goulding

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4:50pm Mar 1, 2004

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German term or phrase: Baliklachs

menu item: Roulade vom Baliklachs mit Kräuter-Creme-fraiche

Karen Goulding

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Questions: 147 (6 open)
Answers: 107

United Kingdom

Balik salmon

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Selected response from:

L. Russell Jones
Germany

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Summary of answers provided

3 +7

Balik salmon

L. Russell Jones

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Koral Özgül

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4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +7

Balik salmon

Explanation:
many hits

Reference: http://marchetransatlantique.zip411.net/en/#

L. Russell Jones
Germany
Native speaker of:

German,

English
PRO pts in category: 2

Note from asker to answerer

Thanks very much

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Hermann

1 min

agree

Jonathan MacKerron: I'm gettin' powerful hungry

3 mins

-> :-) me too (at 18:37 Central Europ. Time)

agree

David Moore: Okay, Russell, so you were there first - and see www.gourmet2000.co.uk/acatalog; but it still isn't clear if it's smoked or not....

6 mins

-> Right, then it would have said "Geräucherter Baliklachs." Who needs all those nitrates anyway. ;-)

agree

Mario Marcolin: smoked

9 mins

agree

writeaway: ok, 3 seconds of googling and I came in 3rd. agree it is not at all clear if it is smoked salmon or not. sites I saw (that's probably why I came in 3rd... ;-) ) certainly suggest that it is a special cut/preparation of smoked salmon

32 mins

agree

Margaret Marks: http://www.culinary-circle.de/pageID_741469.html

2 hrs

agree

Gábor Simon

15 hrs

7 hrs confidence:

***not to be graded***

Explanation:
... but just to have a bit more place to type in.

That page (http://www.culinary-circle.de/pageID_741469.html) seems to be convincing enough and I'm not much familiar with international gourmee terminology anyway.

I just want to give some linguistic background info (for those who have spare time).

The word "balýk" (with undotted i, read like the e in paper) straightly means "fish" in Turkish language. Having TR as native language, this question has immediately caught my eye.

I looked up an etymological reference book and found out these about the word balik:

It's origin is mongolian or turkish (not definitely determined).
It's derived from the word "bal", which means "honey".
Through the ending -ýk (honey-ish), the meaning is "mud" (Schlamm), due to the consistency.
The second meaning is "house", due to the building style in Middle Asia (frameworked tent-like structures plastered with mud).

Now, beyond its direct meaning as "fish", I fantasize about another scenario. A kind of clay-lined outdoor oven is commonly used by turkic people all around the world for cooking purposes. It looks like a small tent too (like those dome-style tents or igloos). And it might (entirely imagination, no reference to that last point at all!) have been used to smoke meat and fish.

Just an improvised idea for mind-gymnastics. :)

Koral Özgül
Turkey
Native speaker of:

Turkish

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German: Baliklachs

English translation: Balik salmon