baku

Ambonese Malay

Pronoun

baku

1. one another, each other

Esperanto

Verb

baku

1. imperative of baki

Finnish

Etymology

Clipping of bakteeri +‎ -u

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑku/,
• Rhymes: -ɑku
• Syllabification^(key): ba‧ku

Noun

baku

1. (slang, biology) Synonym of bakteeri (“bacterium”)

Declension

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ba‧ku

Etymology 1

Most likely from Malay , reconstructed as ber- (“to have; to engage in reciprocal situation”) +‎ aku (“I, my, me”). Doublet of beraku. Malay etymon may be :

• borrowed via Javanese ꦧꦏꦸ (baku, “main, essential, basic; rice-field given to a village head instead of salary”).
• borrowed via Manado Malay baku- (“mutually, reciprocally, each other, one another”).

The sense “standard” is a semantic loan from Dutch standaard via Malay.

Noun

baku (first-person possessive bakuku, second-person possessive bakumu, third-person possessive bakunya)

1. core, base, fundamental

   Synonyms: pokok, dasar, utama

2. standard

   Synonym: standar

   Bahasa baku. ― Standard language.

3. (dialect, Java) members of the village community who are the core population whom own agricultural land, houses and yards.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Malay: baku (“standard”)

Adverb

baku

1. mutually, reciprocally, each other, one another

   Synonyms: satu sama lain, saling, bersama

Etymology 2

From Wolio baku (“provision”).

Noun

baku (first-person possessive bakuku, second-person possessive bakumu, third-person possessive bakunya)

1. (dialect) assistance from family members to the bride and groom as provisions for them to enter a new household.

Etymology 3

From Tolaki .

Noun

baku (first-person possessive bakuku, second-person possessive bakumu, third-person possessive bakunya)

1. (dialect, cooking) a kind of food, made from dried sago, fried together with coconut.

Further reading

• “baku” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese

Romanization

baku

1. Rōmaji transcription of ばく
2. Rōmaji transcription of バク

Javanese

Romanization

baku

1. Romanization of ꦧꦏꦸ.

Malay

Etymology

One theory says that it is from Javanese baku (ꦧꦏꦸ, “main, essential, basic; rice-field given to a village head instead of salary”), most likely from Malay (reconstructed as ber- (“to have”) +‎ aku (“first personal pronoun”), hence doublet of beraku). Several theories:

• Borrowed via Javanese ꦧꦏꦸ (baku, “main, essential, basic; rice-field given to a village head instead of salary”).
• Borrowed via Manado Malay baku- (“mutually, reciprocally, each other, one another”).

Another alternative proposal is that it is borrowed from Minangkabau baku (“frozen”), compare with beku.

• The sense “standard” is a semantic loan from Dutch standaard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baku/
• Rhymes: -aku, -ku, -u

Adjective

baku (Jawi spelling باکو)

1. standard

   Synonyms: standard, piawai

   Bahasa Melayu baku ― Standard Malay

Derived terms

Noun

baku (Jawi spelling باکو, plural baku-baku, informal 1st possessive bakuku, 2nd possessive bakumu, 3rd possessive bakunya)

1. (colloquial) The artificial standardized accent of Malay where every word is pronounced phonemically according to the spelling.

   Synonym: bahasa baku

   Aku tak biasa cakap baku.

   I'm not used to speaking baku.

References

• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “baku”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 71

Further reading

• “baku” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Manado Malay

Prefix

baku

1. alternative form of baku- (“mutually, reciprocally, each other, one another”)

Mapudungun

Noun

baku (Raguileo spelling)

1. paternal grandfather
2. grandchild
3. namesake

See also

• cezki
• cece

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.ku/

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• Rhymes: -aku
• Syllabification: ba‧ku

Noun

baku m inan

1. genitive/locative/vocative singular of bak

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

baku (Cyrillic spelling баку)

1. accusative singular of baka

Sundanese

Romanization

baku

1. Romanization of ᮘᮊᮥ.

Tetum

Verb

baku

1. to beat, to hit

West Makian

Etymology

From East Makian baku (“sago, sago palm”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.ku/

Noun

baku

1. sago
2. the sago palm

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

Yilan Creole

Etymology

From Japanese タバコ (tabako, “tobacco”).

Noun

baku

1. tobacco

References

• Chien Yuehchen (2015) “The lexical system of Yilan Creole”, in New Advances in Formosan Linguistics‎, pages 513-532