bedlam vs balagan

bedlam and balagan both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bedlam	Yes	No	No	No
balagan	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, balagan is a hyponym of bedlam; that is, balagan is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than bedlam:

bedlam: a state of extreme confusion and disorder
balagan: a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian)

bedlam (noun)	balagan (noun)
a state of extreme confusion and disorder	a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian)