baca

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

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin vacca.

Noun

baca f (plural bacas)

1. cow

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “baca”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

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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.

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Cia-Cia

Etymology

Possibly from Indonesian baca.

Verb

baca (Hangul spelling 바짜)

1. read

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Dalmatian

Noun

baca f

1. Alternative form of vaca

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Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.t͡ʃa/
• Hyphenation: ba‧ca
• Rhymes: -t͡ʃa, -a

Verb

baca (used in the form membaca)

1. to read

Conjugation

Conjugation of baca (meng-, transitive)
Root	baca
	Active	Involuntary	Passive	Basic / Imperative	Jussive
Active	membaca	terbaca	dibaca	baca	bacalah
Locative	–	–	–	–	–
Causative / Applicative1	membacakan	terbacakan	dibacakan	bacakan	bacakanlah
	Causative
Active	–	–	–	–	–
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.

Derived terms

• bacaan (“reading material”)
• keterbacaan
• membaca
• membaca-baca
• membacai
• membacakan (“to read aloud, read for someone”)
• pembaca (“reader”) (person)
• pembacaan
• terbaca

 

Further reading

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

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Interlingua

Noun

baca (plural bacas)

1. berry

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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

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Latin

Alternative forms

• bacca

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbaː.ka/, [ˈbäːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈba.ka/, [ˈbäːkä]

Noun

bāca f (genitive bācae); first declension

1. berry, fruit
2. pearl

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

• bācālis
• bacar
• bācātus
• baccalaureus
• bacciballum
• bācifer
• bacriō
• bacula
• quadribaccium
• tribacca

 

Descendants

• Italian: bacca
  • → Romanian: bacă
• Old French: baie
  • French: baie
  • → Catalan: baia
  • → Middle English: baye, baie
    • English: bay (leaf)
  • → Middle Dutch: baye
    • Dutch: bei
  • → Italian: baia
  • → Spanish: baya
• West Iberian
  • Asturian: baga
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Galician: baga; ⇒ bágoa (< bacula), bagulla, (< *bacucula)
    • Portuguese: baga
  • 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.

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Malay

Etymology

From Sanskrit वाचा (vācā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bat͡ʃə/
• IPA^(key): /bat͡ʃa/
• Rhymes: -at͡ʃə, -t͡ʃə, -ə

• Audio (MY, Johor-Selangor):

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Verb

baca (Jawi spelling باچ)

1. to read

Derived terms

• bacaan
• membaca
• membacakan
• pembaca

Descendants

• Indonesian: baca
• → Cebuano: basa
• → Hiligaynon: bása
• → Ilocano: bása
• → Minangkabau: baco
• → Sundanese: ᮘᮎ (baca)
• → Tagalog: basa
• → Urak Lawoi': บาจา (baca)

Further reading

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

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Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑkɑ/

Noun

baca

1. Template:genitive plural of
2. Template:genitive plural of

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Polish

baca

Alternative forms

• bacza (archaic)

Etymology

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

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

• bacowski

 

noun

• bacówka

 

verb

• bacować

 

Further reading

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

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaka]

Noun

baca f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of bacă

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Salar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bāča.

Noun

baca (3rd person possessive [please provide], plural [please provide])

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] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 31
• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “paǰa”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 435

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Scottish Gaelic

Noun

baca m

1. genitive singular of bac

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Slavomolisano

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bǎːtsḁ/

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).

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French bâche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaka/ [ˈba.ka]

Noun

baca f (plural bacas)

1. (Spain) luggage rack

   Synonyms: portaequipajes, parrilla

Further reading

• “baca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Sundanese

Romanization

baca

1. Romanization of ᮘᮎ.

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Ternate

Etymology

From Malay baca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈba.t͡ʃa]

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

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Turkish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /badʒa/

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