бага

From Proto-Abkhaz-Abaza *bagá, from Proto-Northwest Caucasian *bӏagá (“jackal; fox”).

• IPA^(key): [baɡa]

бага • (baga)

1. fox

• Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*bHV̆rgĂ”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers

Cognate with dialectal Russian ба́га (bága), бага́н (bagán, “natural spirit”), of unclear origin.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaɡɐ]

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ба́га • (bága) m or f

1. (dialectal, obsolete) fabled character, hero

In the modern language, the word is used primarily as a nickname or as an honorific (e.g. in dialectal Ба́го Я́ро (Bágo Járo, “personification of calamity”)).

• Anikin, A. E. (2008) “бага”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), numbers 2 (ба – бдынъ), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 47

бага • (baga) ?

1. larch (Larix, tree)

бага • (baga)

1. love
2. frog (amphibian)

Perhaps from Sanskrit पाक (pāka, “child, infant, young of an animal”).

Cognate with Kalmyk баһ (bağ), East Yugur bagha, Khitan 𘮽𘯛 (*b qo, “son”).

• IPA^(key): /paɢ/, [päq]

бага • (baga) (Mongolian spelling ᠪᠠᠭ᠎ᠠ (bag-a))

1. small
2. few
3. young

• (small): жижиг (žižig), өчүүхэн (öčüüxen), жижигхэн (žižigxen)
• (young): залуу (zaluu), нялх (njalx)

• их (ix), том (tom, “big”)
• хуучин (xuučin, “old”)

• бага хурал (baga xural, “conference”)

бага • (baga)

1. a bit (a small amount)

бага • (baga)

1. slightly, a bit

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaɡə]

ба́га • (bága) m inan

1. genitive singular of баг (bag)