bakan

• Hyphenation: ba‧kan

bakan

1. the pondspice (Litsea aestivalis)
2. the antique ark (Anadara antiquata)

bakan

1. definite nominative singular of baka

From Sudanese Arabic بكان (bakān), from Arabic مَكان (makān).

bakán

1. place, location

   bakan ta mutu.

   place where people are executed.

• Ineke Wellens (2005) The Nubi Language of Uganda: an Arabic Creole in Africa, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →ISBN, page 116

bakan

1. Alternative form of bakkan

• baken

Borrowed from Dutch baken, whence English beacon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.kan/
• Rhymes: -akan
• Syllabification: ba‧kan

bakan m inan

1. (nautical) beacon (a signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners)

• bakan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /ba.ˈkan/, [ba.ˈkan]

bakan

1. knife

From bak (“look”) +‎ -an (“-er”). Introduced during the language reform, displaced Ottoman Turkish ناظر (nāẓır), from Arabic ناظِر (nāẓir), of which it is a calque.

• IPA^(key): /baˈkan/

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bakan (definite accusative bakanı, plural bakanlar)

1. minister

   Synonym: nazır

• bakanlık

bakan

1. imperfect participle of bakmak

bakan (nominative plural bakans)

1. baker

• hibakan
• jibakan