baca

From Latin vacca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaka/
• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: ba‧ca

baca f (plural bacas)

1. cow

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

From Persian باجه.

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

baca (definite accusative bacanı, plural bacalar)

1. (Balakan) synonym of bacanaq

• “baca” in Obastan.com.

Borrowed from French bâche (“tarpaulin”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈba.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈba.ka]
• Rhymes: -aka
• Hyphenation: ba‧ca
• Homophone: vaca (Central Catalan)

baca f (plural baques)

1. luggage rack, roof rack (of a car)
2. Synonym of lona

• “baca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “baca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “baca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

Borrowed from Indonesian baca.

baca (Hangul spelling 바짜)

1. to read

baca f

1. Alternative form of vaca

From Proto-Oceanic *bayan (cognate with Tongan pā, Maori pā and Hawaiian pā) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bayan (“bait”).

baca

1. bait (both of literal fishing sense & metaphorical i.e. enticement)

• Gatty, Ronald (2009) “baca”, in Fijian-English Dictionary, Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 10
• Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “paa.3a”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

Borrowed from Sanskrit वाचा (vācā, “speech, word”) via Malay baca.

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

baca (active membaca, passive dibaca, perfective passive terbaca)

1. (transitive) to read

   Tadi pagi saya membaca selembar koran.

   This morning I read a newspaper.

• “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.
• “membaca” 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.

baca (plural bacas)

1. berry

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.ka/
• Rhymes: -aka
• Hyphenation: bà‧ca

baca

1. inflection of bacare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• bacca

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.[1] See baccalaureate, bachelor and basin, from a different(?) root.

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

bāca f (genitive bācae); first declension

1. various small fruit of trees and shrubs: a berry, stone fruit (including olives, cherries)
   • 23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia 16.219:

     Et hāctenus sint speciēs ac genera pōmōrum: nātūrās artius colligī pār est. alia siliquīs distinguntur, ipsīs dulcibus sēmenque conplexīs amārum, cum in plūribus sēmina placeant, in siliquā damnentur; alia bācīs, quārum intus lignum et extrā carō, ut olīvīs, cerasīs; aliquōrum intus bācae, forīs lignum, ut iīs quae in Aegyptō dīximus gignī. quae bācīs nātūra, eadem et pōmīs.

2. an olive fruit in particular, an olive-berry

   Synonyms: olīva, olea

3. a pearl

   Synonyms: margarīta, margarītum

4. a coral bead or piece

First-declension noun.

• “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.

From Sanskrit वाचा (vācā).

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

• Audio (MY, Johor-Selangor)

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baca (Jawi spelling باچ)

1. to read

• bacaan
• membaca
• membacakan
• pembaca

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑkɑ/

baca

1. genitive plural of bæc
2. genitive plural of bæċ

• bacza (archaic)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.t͡sa/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -at͡sa
• Syllabification: ba‧ca

baca m pers

1. an elder shepherd from Karpaty

   Hypernym: pasterz

   Coordinate term: juhas

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaka]

baca f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of bacă

From Proto-Turkic *bāča.

• (Jiezi, Gaizi, Xunhua, Qinghai, Ili, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): [pɑʝɑ]

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

1. brother-in-law

• 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], 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 31
• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “paǰa”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 435
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “bɑʝɑ”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎, Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 53

baca m

1. genitive singular of bac

baca (Cyrillic spelling баца)

1. third-person singular present of bacati

• IPA^(key): /bǎːtsḁ/

baca m

1. older brother

• 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).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaka/ [ˈba.ka]
• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: ba‧ca
• Homophone: vaca

Borrowed from French bâche (“tarpaulin”).

baca f (plural bacas)

1. (Spain) luggage rack

   Synonyms: portaequipajes, parrilla

From Latin bacca, variant of bāca.

baca f (plural bacas)

1. laurel berry

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

baca

1. Romanization of ᮘᮎ.

From Malay baca.

• IPA^(key): [ˈba.t͡ʃa]

baca

1. (transitive) to read

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

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

• IPA^(key): /badʒa/

baca (definite accusative bacayı, plural bacalar)

1. chimney