bakbak

Binukid

Noun

bakbak

1. generic term for frog or toad

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bak‧bak

Etymology 1

Compare bukbok.

Verb

bakbak

1. to hammer; to strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

bakbak

1. swaddling; clothing that restrict movement of babies

Anagrams

• kabkab

Chickasaw

Etymology

From the verb bak bak bak aachi (“to make a knocking sound”). Compare Choctaw bakbak, Alabama bakba, Koasati bakba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bak.bak/

Noun

bakbak (alienable)

1. woodpecker, bird of the family Picidae.

   Synonym: aboowa boꞌliꞌ

Inflection

Class III Noun Possession (Alienable)

Nouns in vowel-, b-, or p-	Singular	Plural	Inclusive Tri-Plural
1st-person ("my, our")	ambakbak am-bakbak	pombakbak pom-bakbak	hapombakbak hapom-bakbak
2nd-person ("thy, your")	chimbakbak chim-bakbak	hachimbakbak hachim-bakbak
3rd-person ("his, her, its, their")	imbakbak im-bakbak

Derived terms

• bakbak ishkoboꞌ hommaꞌ
• bakbak ishtoꞌ

Higaonon

Noun

bakbak

1. frog

Maranao

Noun

bakbak

1. hammer

Samoan Plantation Pidgin

Etymology

From English bark, with reduplication.

Verb

bakbak

1. to bark.

References

• Peter, Mühlhäusler (1983) “Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin”, in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh, editors, The Social Context of Creolization, Ann Arbor: Karoma, pages 28-76

Tagabawa

Noun

bakbak

1. bullfrog

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bakbak (“peel off, of skin; remove the bark of a tree”). Compare Hokkien 剝／剥 (pak, “to peel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bakˈbak/, [bɐkˈbak]
• Hyphenation: bak‧bak

Noun

bakbák (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜃ᜔ᜊᜃ᜔)

1. act of detaching forcibly
2. part of an object where the covering was forcibly detached
3. (colloquial) attack; assault (against someone)

   Synonyms: atake, tuligsa

Derived terms

• bakbak-tahong
• bakbakan
• bakbakin
• bumakbak
• mabakbak
• makipagbakbakan
• pagbakbak
• pambakbak

 

See also

• balakbak
• balakubak
• balat

 

Adjective

bakbák (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜃ᜔ᜊᜃ᜔)

1. detached; decorticated; peeled off; scraped off

   Synonyms: puknat, tuklap, talop

Further reading

• “bakbak”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Tiruray

Noun

bakbak

1. hammer