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Baka

Baka

See also: baka and båkå

English

Noun

Baka ‎(plural Baka)

  1. A member of a nomadic ethnic group inhabiting parts of western and central Africa.

baka

baka

See also: Baka and båkå

Bikol Central

Noun

baka

  1. cow

Binukid

Noun

baka

  1. cow

Noun

bakà

  1. jaw

Bolinao

Noun

baka

  1. cow

Cebuano

Etymology

From Latin vacca thru Spanish vaca.

Noun

baka

  1. cow
  2. (generally) cattle (both cows and bulls)
  3. beef

Adjective

baka

  1. beef

Dupaninan Agta

Adverb

baka

  1. perhaps; maybe

Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛaːʰka/
  • Rhymes: -ɛaːʰka
  • Homophone: bakað

Etymology

From Old Norse baka, from Proto-Germanic *bakaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g-.

Verb

baka ‎(third person singular past indicative bakaði, third person plural past indicative bakað, supine bakað)

  1. to bake

Conjugation

Hausa

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bàkaː/

Noun

bàkā m ‎(plural bakunkuna)

  1. bow
  2. hacksaw
  3. catch of a lock

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bakà/

Adverb

bakà

  1. in the mouth

Hiligaynon

Etymology

Borrowing from Spanish vaca.

Noun

báka

  1. bull, cow, ox

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbɒkɒ]
  • Hyphenation: ba‧ka

Noun

baka ‎(plural bakák)

  1. soldier

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative baka bakák
accusative bakát bakákat
dative bakának bakáknak
instrumental bakával bakákkal
causal-final bakáért bakákért
translative bakává bakákká
terminative bakáig bakákig
essive-formal bakaként bakákként
essive-modal — —
inessive bakában bakákban
superessive bakán bakákon
adessive bakánál bakáknál
illative bakába bakákba
sublative bakára bakákra
allative bakához bakákhoz
elative bakából bakákból
delative bakáról bakákról
ablative bakától bakáktól
Possessive forms of baka
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. bakám bakáim
2nd person sing. bakád bakáid
3rd person sing. bakája bakái
1st person plural bakánk bakáink
2nd person plural bakátok bakáitok
3rd person plural bakájuk bakáik

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpaːka/
  • Rhymes: -aːka

Etymology 1

From the verb baka ‎(“to bake”).

Noun

baka f ‎(genitive singular böku, nominative plural bökur)

  1. pie
Declension
Derived terms
  • kjötbaka

Etymology 2

From Old Norse baka, from Proto-Germanic *bakaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g-.

Verb

baka ‎(weak verb, third-person singular past indicative bakaði, supine bakað)

  1. to bake
Conjugation
bakast — mediopassive voice (miðmynd)
infinitive
(nafnháttur) 		að bakast
supine
(sagnbót) 		bakast
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar) 		bakandist **
** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses
indicative
(framsöguháttur) 		subjunctive
(viðtengingarháttur)
present
(nútíð) 		ég bakast við bökumst present
(nútíð) 		ég bakist við bökumst
þú bakast þið bakist þú bakist þið bakist
hann, hún, það bakast þeir, þær, þau bakast hann, hún, það bakist þeir, þær, þau bakist
past
(þátíð) 		ég bakaðist við bökuðumst past
(þátíð) 		ég bakaðist við bökuðumst
þú bakaðist þið bökuðust þú bakaðist þið bökuðust
hann, hún, það bakaðist þeir, þær, þau bökuðust hann, hún, það bakaðist þeir, þær, þau bökuðust
imperative
(boðháttur) 		bakast (þú) bakist (þið)
Forms with appended personal pronoun
bakastu bakisti *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Etymology 3

Form of bak ‎(“a back”).

Noun

baka n

  1. indefinite genitive plural of bak

Indonesian

Adjective

baka

  1. eternal

Japanese

Romanization

baka

  1. rōmaji reading of ばか

Kiput

Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak *bakas.

Noun

baka

  1. wild boar

Malay

Adjective

baka

  1. patriarchal, ruled by men
    sistem (kuasa) baka
    a patriarchal system

Antonyms

Noun

baka

  1. stock, breed (of livestock)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Noun

baka m, n

  1. definite neuter plural of bak

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bakaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g-. Compare Old English bacan (English bake), Old Saxon bakkan (Low German backen), Dutch bakken, Old High German bahhan, backan (German backen).

Verb

baka

  1. to bake

Descendants

References

  • baka in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

baka m

  1. crane
  2. heron

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From earlier babka; compare bȁba.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bǎːka/
  • Hyphenation: ba‧ka

Noun

báka f ‎(Cyrillic spelling ба́ка)

  1. (hypocoristic) grandmother, grandma
  2. (hypocoristic, regional) old woman

Declension

References

  • “baka” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English back.

Adjective

baka

  1. back
    bakasey‎ ― behind

Noun

baka

  1. back

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse baka, from Proto-Germanic *bakaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g-.

Pronunciation

Verb

baka

  1. to bake; to cook in an oven.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowing from Spanish vaca.

Noun

baka

  1. cow

Adverb

baka

  1. maybe, probably
  2. might

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