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Baliklachs

English translation: Balik salmon

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

16:50 Mar 1, 2004
German to English translations [PRO]
Food & Drink / menu
German term or phrase: Baliklachs
menu item: Roulade vom Baliklachs mit Kräuter-Creme-fraiche
Karen Goulding
Local time: 08:37
Balik salmon
Explanation:
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L. Russell Jones
Local time: 09:37
Grading comment
Thanks very much
2 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



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3 +7Balik salmon
L. Russell Jones
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Koral Özgül


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +7
Balik salmon


Explanation:
many hits


    Reference: http://marchetransatlantique.zip411.net/en/#
L. Russell Jones
Local time: 09:37
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 2
Grading comment
Thanks very much

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Norbert Hermann
1 min
agree  Jonathan MacKerron: I'm gettin' powerful hungry
3 mins
  -> :-) me too (at 18:37 Central Europ. Time)
agree  David Moore (X): 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
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5
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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
Türkiye
Local time: 10:37
Native speaker of: Turkish
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