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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bak.bak/

Noun

bakbak (alienable)

1. woodpecker, bird of the family Picidae.

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

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

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: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018

Tiruray

Noun

bakbak

1. hammer