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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
baklava is a noun meaning "rich Middle Eastern cake made of thin layers of flaky pastry filled with nuts and honey". It carries one recorded sense.
rich Middle Eastern cake made of thin layers of flaky pastry filled with nuts and honey
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for baklava come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.