balcon

Borrowed from French balcon.

balcon (plural balcons)

1. Obsolete form of balcony.
   • 1665 June 1, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys‎, volume 5, Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1885, pages 33–34:

     That done, we walked to Cornehill, and there at Mr. Cade’s stood in the balcon and saw all the funeral, which was with the blue-coat boys and old men, all the Aldermen, and Lord Mayor, &c., and the number of the company very great; the greatest I ever did see for a taverne.

• Blacon, Blanco, blanco

Borrowed from Italian balcone.

• IPA^(key): /bal.kɔ̃/

• audio

  (file)

balcon m (plural balcons)

1. (architecture) balcony

• avoir du monde au balcon

• → Danish: balkon
  • → Greenlandic: balkonngi
• → Dutch: balkon
• → German: Balkon
• → Ottoman Turkish: بالقون (balkon)
  • Turkish: balkon
  • → Albanian: ballkon
• → Polish: balkon
• → Romanian: balcon
• → Russian: балко́н (balkón)
  • → Armenian: բալկոն (balkon)
  • → Azerbaijani: balkon
  • → Georgian: ბალკონი (balḳoni)
  • → Kazakh: балкон (balkon)
• → Vietnamese: ban công

• “balcon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Of Germanic origin; possibly from Lombardic balko (“beam”), from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”). Compare Venetian balcon.

balcon m (plural balcons)

1. window

Borrowed from French balcon.

• IPA^(key): /balˈkon/

• Audio

  (file)

balcon n (plural balcoane)

1. (architecture) balcony

   El stă pe balcon.

   He is sitting on the balcony.

2. (slang) boob, tit

   Are niște balcoane imense!

   She has huge tits!

• balcón, barcon, barcón

Borrowed from Lombardic balko, from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”). Compare Italian balcone.

balcon m (plural balconi) (Alternative plural: balcuni)

1. window
2. shutter

• finestra, fenestra

• bancan

Ultimately from Sanskrit वङ्गन (vaṅgana).

balcon

1. eggplant