bâbacân

Khalaj

Perso-Arabic		باباجان

Alternative forms

• bâvjân, bâvjûn
• büdük bâvjûn

Etymology

From bâbâ + Persian جان (jân).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baːbad͡ʒaːn/

dialectal pronunciations

• (Feyzabad) IPA^(key): [bɑːbad͡ʒɑːn]
• (Hasanabad) IPA^(key): [bɔ̞ːbad͡ʒɑːnʊm] (attested with the first-person singular possessive)
• (Kacha-ye Chahardeh) IPA^(key): [bɑːbɑd͡ʒɒːn]
• (Mohsenabad) IPA^(key): [bɔ̞ːbɑd͡ʒaːn]
• (Naderabad) IPA^(key): [bo̞bɑd͡ʒɑːn]
• (Nowdeh) IPA^(key): [bɑːbad͡ʒaːn]
• (Sadabad) IPA^(key): [bɑːbad͡ʒɒːn]
• (Safarabad) IPA^(key): [bɒːbad͡ʒɒːn]
• (Sefid Ab) IPA^(key): [bɒːbad͡ʒɔ̞ːn]
• (Seqer Juq) IPA^(key): [bɔ̞ːbɑd͡ʒɔ̞ːn]
• (Shah Qoli) IPA^(key): [bɑːbad͡ʑaːn]
• (Yengijeh, Zarnusheh) IPA^(key): [bɔ̞ːbad͡ʒɔ̞ːn]

Noun

bâbacân (definite accusative bâbacânı, plural bâbacânlar)

1. grandfather

   Synonyms: ağu bâba, büdük bâba, büdük dədə, bâba, tâta

Declension

Declension of bâbacân

	singular	plural
nominative	bâbacân	bâbacânlar
genitive	bâbacânııñ	bâbacânlarııñ
dative	bâbacânqa	bâbacânlarqa
definite accusative	bâbacânı	bâbacânları
locative	bâbacânça	bâbacânlarça
ablative	bâbacânda	bâbacânlarda
instrumental	bâbacânla	bâbacânlarla
equative	bâbacânvâra	bâbacânlarvâra

References

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1987) Lexik und Sprachgeographie des Chaladsch [Lexicon and Language Geography of Khalaj] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN