bacán

See also: bacan, bacàn, băcan, and Băcan

Irish

Etymology 1

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Noun

bacán m (genitive singular bacáin, nominative plural bacáin)

1. hinge hook
2. crook
3. peg
4. glass (of poteen)

Derived terms

• bacán agus inse (“hook and hinge”)
• bacán amuigh m (“outrigger”)
• bacán binse m (“bench stop”)
• bacán brád m (“collar-bone”)
• bacán ceangail m (“belaying-pin”)
• bacán cromáin m (“crank-arm”)
• bacán hata m (“hat-peg”)
• bacán inse m (“hinge-pin”)
• bacán láimhe m (“upper arm”)
• bacán láir m (“centre pin”)
• bacán téide m (“tethering post”)
• bacánach (“crooked, hinged”, adjective)

 

Etymology 2

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Noun

bacán m (genitive singular bacáin, nominative plural bacáin)

1. (stalk of) water lily
2. Alternative form of beacán (“mushroom”)

Derived terms

• bacán bán m (“white water-lily”)

Declension

Declension of bacán

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative bacán bacáin Vocative a bhacáin a bhacána Genitive bacáin bacán Dative bacán bacáin

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an bacán na bacáin Genitive an bhacáin na mbacán Dative leis an mbacán don bhacán leis na bacáin

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bacán	bhacán	mbacán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bacán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bacán”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “bacán”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ligurian bacan (“boss, captain”), from Turkish bakan (“minister”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈkan/ [baˈkãn]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: ba‧cán

Noun

bacán m (plural bacanes)

1. (colloquial, Argentina, Uruguay) pimp
2. (colloquial, dated, Argentina, Uruguay) boss, owner
3. (colloquial, dated, Argentina, Uruguay) concubine
4. (colloquial, dated, Argentina, Uruguay) lover of a kept woman

Adjective

bacán (feminine bacana, masculine plural bacanes, feminine plural bacanas)

1. (colloquial, Ecuador, Perú, Chile, Colombia, Cuba) cool, awesome

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:guay

2. (colloquial, Argentina, Uruguay) posh
3. (colloquial, Argentina, Uruguay) snobbish
4. (colloquial, Argentina, Uruguay) luxurious, refined

Further reading

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