bác

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Czech

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

Interjection

bác

  1. (onomatopoeia) boom (a sudden percussive sound)
  2. signifies suddenness
    "Pozná děvče a bác! ožení se." ― "He meets a girl and boom! He's married."

Further reading

  • “bác”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “bác”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
  • “bác” in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2024, slovnikcestiny.cz

Slovak

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

Interjection

bác

  1. bang, bam (a sudden percussive sound)

Further reading

Tày

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Verb

bác

  1. to chop
    bác mạy ― to chop trees
    bác nhả ― to cut grass
    thai bác ― to die from being slashed
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Possibly from Vietnamese bác.

Verb

bác

  1. to distill
    bác xáy ― to distill eggs
Synonyms

Etymology 3

Noun

bác

  1. bowl (from bamboo or wood)

References

  • Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt‎ (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
  • Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français‎ (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Late Proto-Vietic *paːk (“uncle, father/mother's older brother”), from Middle Chinese 伯 (MC paek, “uncle”) (SV: bá).

Noun

bác • (伯, 博)

  1. an older adult; senior; elder
  2. paternal uncle, father's elder brother
  3. paternal aunt-in-law, father's elder brother's wife
  4. (archaic) father
    bác mẹ
    parents
Synonyms

Pronoun

bác

  1. you, someone who's presumably slightly older than one of my parents
    Antonyms: cháu, con
  2. he/him/she/her, someone who's presumably slightly older than one of my parents
    Antonyms: cháu, con
  3. (familiar) you, someone who's slightly older than me
    Synonyms: anh, chị
    Antonym: em

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

bác

  1. to scramble (eggs, etc.)

Etymology 3

Sino-Vietnamese word from 駁.

Verb

bác

  1. (often in compounds) to reject, to dismiss, to refute, to turn down
Derived terms
Derived terms

Wiyot

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /βát͡s/
  • Hyphenation: bác

Noun

bác (vocative hodác)

  1. (to a male) sister-in-law

References

  • Gladys A. Reichard (1925) Wiyot Grammar and Texts, University of California press, page 130
  • Karl V. Teeter (1964) The Wiyot Language, University of California press, page 80
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