Baka
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "baka"
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun[edit]
Baka (plural Baka)
- A member of a nomadic ethnic group inhabiting parts of western and central Africa.
Etymology 2[edit]
Borrowed from Czech, Slovak, Hungarian and Polish Baka.
Proper noun[edit]
Baka (plural Bakas)
- A surname.
Statistics[edit]
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Baka is the 38850th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 568 individuals. Baka is most common among White (88.38%) individuals.
Further reading[edit]
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Baka”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 85.
Anagrams[edit]
Jamamadí[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Baka
- (Banawá) a unisex given name
References[edit]
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Tagalog[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From baka. Calque of Arabic الْبَقَرَة (al-baqara, “the cow”). See also Arabic سُورَةُ ٱلْبَقَرَة (sūratu l-baqara).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈbaka/ [ˈba.xɐ]
- Rhymes: -aka
- Syllabification: Ba‧ka
Proper noun[edit]
Categories:
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English indeclinable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English terms borrowed from Czech
- English terms derived from Czech
- English terms borrowed from Slovak
- English terms derived from Slovak
- English terms borrowed from Hungarian
- English terms derived from Hungarian
- English terms borrowed from Polish
- English terms derived from Polish
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English surnames
- English surnames from Czech
- English surnames from Slovak
- English surnames from Hungarian
- English surnames from Polish
- Jamamadí lemmas
- Jamamadí proper nouns
- Jamamadí given names
- Jamamadí male given names
- Jamamadí female given names
- Jamamadí unisex given names
- Tagalog terms calqued from Arabic
- Tagalog terms derived from Arabic
- Tagalog 2-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/aka
- Rhymes:Tagalog/aka/2 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog proper nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
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