Turkish cuisine yogurt, or wheat (often mashed) called tarhana çorbası. Delicacy soups are the ones that are usually not the part of the daily diet, such as İşkembe soup and paça çorbası, although the latter also used to be consumed as a nutritious winter meal. Before the popularisation of the typical Turkish breakfast, soup was the default morning meal for some people. The most common soups in Turkish cuisine are: Turkish cuisine has a range of savoury and sweet pastries. Dough based specialties form an integral part of traditional Turkish cuisine. The use of layered dough is rooted in the nomadic character
Baklava pile up' composed with the Turkic verbal ending "-v"; baγla- itself in Mongolian is a Turkic loanword. Armenian linguist Sevan Nişanyan considers its oldest known forms (pre-1500) to be "baklağı" and "baklağu", and labels it as being of Proto-Turkic origin. Another form of the word is also recorded in Persian, ('). Though the suffix "-vā" might suggest a Persian origin, the "baqla-" part does not appear to be Persian and remains of unknown origin. The Arabic name " likely originates from Turkish, though a folk etymology, unsupported by Wehr's dictionary, connects it to Arabic 'bean'. Although the history of baklava