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See also: Baca, bacá, bacă, bacą, baća, bača, baça, and bàca

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin vacca.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaka/
  • Rhymes: -aka
  • Syllabification: ba‧ca

Noun

baca f (plural bacas)

  1. cow

References

Azerbaijani

Etymology 1

From Persian باجه.

Noun

baca (definite accusative bacanı, plural bacalar)

  1. chimney
  2. smokehole or a hole the ceiling through which air and light can enter a countryside building
  3. a hatchway (e.g. leading to a sewer)
  4. (Bilasuvar, Tabriz, Yardimli) window
    Synonym: pəncərə
  5. (Julfa) niche
    Synonym: taxça

Etymology 2

Noun

baca (definite accusative bacanı, plural bacalar)

  1. (Balakan) synonym of bacanaq

Declension

    Declension of baca
singular plural
nominative baca
 bacalar
definite accusative bacanı
 bacaları
dative bacaya
 bacalara
locative bacada
 bacalarda
ablative bacadan
 bacalardan
definite genitive bacanın
 bacaların
    Possessive forms of baca
nominative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) bacam bacalarım
sənin (“your”) bacan bacaların
onun (“his/her/its”) bacası bacaları
bizim (“our”) bacamız bacalarımız
sizin (“your”) bacanız bacalarınız
onların (“their”) bacası or bacaları bacaları
accusative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) bacamı bacalarımı
sənin (“your”) bacanı bacalarını
onun (“his/her/its”) bacasını bacalarını
bizim (“our”) bacamızı bacalarımızı
sizin (“your”) bacanızı bacalarınızı
onların (“their”) bacasını or bacalarını bacalarını
dative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) bacama bacalarıma
sənin (“your”) bacana bacalarına
onun (“his/her/its”) bacasına bacalarına
bizim (“our”) bacamıza bacalarımıza
sizin (“your”) bacanıza bacalarınıza
onların (“their”) bacasına or bacalarına bacalarına
locative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) bacamda bacalarımda
sənin (“your”) bacanda bacalarında
onun (“his/her/its”) bacasında bacalarında
bizim (“our”) bacamızda bacalarımızda
sizin (“your”) bacanızda bacalarınızda
onların (“their”) bacasında or bacalarında bacalarında
ablative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) bacamdan bacalarımdan
sənin (“your”) bacandan bacalarından
onun (“his/her/its”) bacasından bacalarından
bizim (“our”) bacamızdan bacalarımızdan
sizin (“your”) bacanızdan bacalarınızdan
onların (“their”) bacasından or bacalarından bacalarından
genitive
singular plural
mənim (“my”) bacamın bacalarımın
sənin (“your”) bacanın bacalarının
onun (“his/her/its”) bacasının bacalarının
bizim (“our”) bacamızın bacalarımızın
sizin (“your”) bacanızın bacalarınızın
onların (“their”) bacasının or bacalarının bacalarının

Further reading

  • “baca” in Obastan.com.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French bâche (“tarpaulin”).

Pronunciation

Noun

baca f (plural baques)

  1. luggage rack, roof rack (of a car)
  2. Synonym of lona

Further reading

Cia-Cia

Etymology

Possibly from Indonesian baca.

Verb

baca (Hangul spelling 바짜)

  1. read

Dalmatian

Noun

baca f

  1. Alternative form of vaca

Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *bayan (cognate with Tongan pā, Maori pā and Hawaiian pā) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bayan (“bait”).

Noun

baca

  1. bait (both of literal fishing sense & metaphorical i.e. enticement)

References

  • Gatty, Ronald (2009) “baca”, in Fijian-English Dictionary, Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 10
  • Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “paa.3a”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit वाचा (vācā, “speech, voice”) via Malay baca.

Pronunciation

Verb

baca (active membaca, passive dibaca, perfective passive terbaca)

  1. (transitive) to read
    Tadi pagi saya membaca selembar koran.
    This morning I read a newspaper.

Conjugation

Conjugation of baca (meng-, transitive)
Root baca
Active Involuntary Passive Imperative Jussive
Active membaca terbaca dibaca baca bacalah
Locative – – – – –
Causative / Applicative1 membacakan terbacakan dibacakan bacakan bacakanlah
Causative
Locative – – – – –
Causative / Applicative1 memperbacakan terperbacakan diperbacakan perbacakan perbacakanlah
1The -kan row is either causative or applicative, with transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
Notes:
Some of these forms do normally not exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

Affixed terms

Further reading

Interlingua

Noun

baca (plural bacas)

  1. berry

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈba.ka/
  • Rhymes: -aka
  • Hyphenation: bà‧ca

Verb

baca

  1. inflection of bacare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From a Proto-Indo-European source, although the exact root is unclear. Most likely connected to Lithuanian bapkas (“berry, laurel”), which renders a root *bab- (“to be round”), evolving into bab-ca and finally baca. See baccalaureate, bachelor and basin, from a different(?) root.

Pronunciation

Noun

bāca f (genitive bācae); first declension

  1. various small fruit of trees and shrubs: a berry, stone fruit (including olives, cherries)
    • 23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia 16.219:
      Et hāctenus sint speciēs ac genera pōmōrum: nātūrās artius colligī pār est. alia siliquīs distinguntur, ipsīs dulcibus sēmenque conplexīs amārum, cum in plūribus sēmina placeant, in siliquā damnentur; alia bācīs, quārum intus lignum et extrā carō, ut olīvīs, cerasīs; aliquōrum intus bācae, forīs lignum, ut iīs quae in Aegyptō dīximus gignī. quae bācīs nātūra, eadem et pōmīs.
  2. an olive fruit in particular, an olive-berry
    Synonyms: olīva, olea
  3. a pearl
    Synonyms: margarīta, margarītum
  4. a coral bead or piece

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bāca bācae
Genitive bācae bācārum
Dative bācae bācīs
Accusative bācam bācās
Ablative bācā bācīs
Vocative bāca bācae

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italian: bacca
  • Old French: baie
  • West Iberian
    • Asturian: baga
    • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Spanish: baca

References

  • “baca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “baca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • baca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • baca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Transactions of the Philological Society, p. 340

Malay

Etymology

From Sanskrit वाचा (vācā).

Pronunciation

Verb

baca (Jawi spelling باچ)

  1. to read

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

Old English

Pronunciation

Noun

baca

  1. genitive plural of bæc
  2. genitive plural of bæċ

Polish

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Romanian baci, further etymology disputed. Originally bacza, but was changed to the current form due to mazurzenie.

Pronunciation

Noun

baca m pers

  1. an elder shepherd from Karpaty
    Hypernym: pasterz
    Coordinate term: juhas

Declension

Declension of baca
singular plural
nominative baca bacowie
genitive bacy baców
dative bacy bacom
accusative bacę baców
instrumental bacą bacami
locative bacy bacach
vocative baco bacowie

Derived terms

adjective
noun
verb

Further reading

  • baca in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • baca in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Pronunciation

Noun

baca f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of bacă

Salar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bāča.

Pronunciation

  • (Jiezi, Gaizi, Xunhua, Qinghai, Ili, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA(key):

Noun

baca (3rd person possessive , plural )

  1. brother-in-law

References

  • Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “baca”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary], 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 31
  • Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “paǰa”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 435
  • Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “bɑʝɑ”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎, Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 53

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

baca m

  1. genitive singular of bac

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

baca (Cyrillic spelling баца)

  1. third-person singular present of bacati

Slavomolisano

Pronunciation

Noun

baca m

  1. older brother

Declension

    declension of baca (series-2a masc a-stem)
singular plural
nominative baca
 bace
genitive baca
 baci
dative bacu
 baci
accusative baca
 bace
locative bacu
 bace
instrumental bacom, bacam
 baci

References

  • Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale).

Spanish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French bâche (“tarpaulin”).

Noun

baca f (plural bacas)

  1. (Spain) luggage rack
    Synonyms: portaequipajes, parrilla

Etymology 2

From Latin bacca, variant of bāca.

Noun

baca f (plural bacas)

  1. laurel berry

Further reading

Sundanese

Romanization

baca

  1. Romanization of ᮘᮎ.

Ternate

Etymology

From Malay baca.

Pronunciation

Verb

baca

  1. (transitive) to read

Conjugation

Conjugation of baca
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st tobaca fobaca mibaca
2nd nobaca nibaca
3rd Masculine obaca ibaca, yobaca†
Feminine mobaca
Neuter ibaca
† - archaic

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish باجه, borrowed from Persian باجه (bâje).

Pronunciation

Noun

baca (definite accusative bacayı, plural bacalar)

  1. chimney

Declension

Inflection
Nominative baca
Definite accusative bacayı
Singular Plural
Nominative baca bacalar
Definite accusative bacayı bacaları
Dative bacaya bacalara
Locative bacada bacalarda
Ablative bacadan bacalardan
Genitive bacanın bacaların
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular bacam bacalarım
2nd singular bacan bacaların
3rd singular bacası bacaları
1st plural bacamız bacalarımız
2nd plural bacanız bacalarınız
3rd plural bacaları bacaları
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular bacamı bacalarımı
2nd singular bacanı bacalarını
3rd singular bacasını bacalarını
1st plural bacamızı bacalarımızı
2nd plural bacanızı bacalarınızı
3rd plural bacalarını bacalarını
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular bacama bacalarıma
2nd singular bacana bacalarına
3rd singular bacasına bacalarına
1st plural bacamıza bacalarımıza
2nd plural bacanıza bacalarınıza
3rd plural bacalarına bacalarına
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular bacamda bacalarımda
2nd singular bacanda bacalarında
3rd singular bacasında bacalarında
1st plural bacamızda bacalarımızda
2nd plural bacanızda bacalarınızda
3rd plural bacalarında bacalarında
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular bacamdan bacalarımdan
2nd singular bacandan bacalarından
3rd singular bacasından bacalarından
1st plural bacamızdan bacalarımızdan
2nd plural bacanızdan bacalarınızdan
3rd plural bacalarından bacalarından
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular bacamın bacalarımın
2nd singular bacanın bacalarının
3rd singular bacasının bacalarının
1st plural bacamızın bacalarımızın
2nd plural bacanızın bacalarınızın
3rd plural bacalarının bacalarının
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