 The word "baklava" is first attested in English in 1650, a borrowing from Ottoman Turkish .The name baklava is used in many languages with minor phonetic and spelling variations.Historian Paul D. Buell argues that the word "baklava" may come from the Mongolian root ' 'to tie, wrap up, pile up' composed with the Turkic verbal ending "-v"; baγla- itself in Mongolian is a Turkic loanword.