бачкам

By surface analysis, ба́цам (bácam, “to prod”) (dialectal) +‎ -кам (-kam).

• IPA^(key):

ба́чкам • (báčkam) first-singular present indicative, impf

1. (transitive, intransitive, dialectal) to tap, to clap
2. (intransitive, colloquial) to work, to toil, to grind away

• ба́кам (bákam, “to exert, to wield (force, influence)”) (obsolete)
• ба́кнувам (báknuvam, “to kiss”) (dialectal)
• ба́чна pf (báčna, “to bash”) (dialectal)

• бач (bač, “herder, cheese maker”), бачи́я (bačíja, “creamery”) (Hungarian loanwords, unrelated)

• “бачкам”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “бачкам”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Nayden Gerov, Тодор Панчев (1908) “ба́чкамъ (да ба́чна)”, in Допълнение на българския рѣчникъ [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎ (in Bulgarian), volume 6, Plovdiv: Печатница "Трудъ" на Петко Бѣловѣждовъ, page 16
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “бачкам”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 37

• IPA^(key):

бачка́м • (bačkám) m inan pl

1. dative plural of бачо́к (bačók)

• IPA^(key):

ба́чкам • (báčkam) m inan pl

1. dative of ба́чки (báčki)