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baca
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "baca"
Aragonese
Etymology
Noun
baca f (plural bacas)
- superseded spelling of vaca (“cow”)
Azerbaijani
Etymology 1
Noun
baca (definite accusative bacanı, plural bacalar)
Etymology 2
Noun
baca (definite accusative bacanı, plural bacalar)
Declension
Further reading
- “baca” in Obastan.com.
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Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
baca f (plural baques)
- luggage rack, roof rack (of a car)
- synonym of lona
Further reading
- “baca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “baca”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “baca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
Cia-Cia
Etymology
Borrowed from Indonesian baca.
Verb
baca (Hangul spelling 바짜)
- to read
Dalmatian
Noun
baca f
- alternative form of vaca
Fijian
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *bayan (cognate with Tongan pā, Maori pā and Hawaiian pā) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bayan (“bait”).
Noun
baca
- bait (both of literal fishing sense & metaphorical i.e. enticement)
References
- 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”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
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Indonesian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈbat͡ʃa/ [ˈba.t͡ʃa]
- Rhymes: -at͡ʃa
- Syllabification: ba‧ca
Verb
baca (active membaca, passive dibaca)
- to read (to look at and interpret letters or other information)
- Dia sedang membaca koran di teras.
- He is reading a newspaper on the terrace.
- to read (to speak aloud words or other information that is written)
- Synonym: bacakan
- Setiap hari di kelas akan disuruh bergiliran membaca.
- Every day in class we will be asked to take turns reading.
- to recite, to read aloud a verse or content of a (especially religious) book
- Bacakan surah Al-Baqarah ayat 183!
- Recite Al-Baqara verse 183!
- (informal, linguistics) to pronounce
- Kata "finger" itu dibacanya "fi-nger", bukan "fin-jer".
- The word "finger" is pronounced "fi-nger", not "fin-jer".
Derived terms
- baca-baca (“to read repeatedly; to read unseriously”)
- bacaan (“reading, reading material”)
- (uncommon) bacai (“to read repeatedly; to learn; to make fun of”)
- (colloquial) bacain (“to read, speak aloud; to read (for)”)
- bacakan (“to read, speak aloud; to read (for)”)
- (informal) kebaca (“having been read; readable; predictable”)
- kepembacaan (“readership”)
- keterbacaan (“readability”)
- pembaca (“reader”)
- pembacaan (“reading”)
- terbaca (“having been read; readable; predictable”)
Descendants
- → Cia-Cia: baca
Further reading
- “baca”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
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Interlingua
Noun
baca (plural bacas)
Italian
Pronunciation
Verb
baca
- inflection of bacare:
Latin
Malay
Old English
Polish
Romanian
Salar
Scottish Gaelic
Serbo-Croatian
Slavomolisano
Spanish
Sundanese
Ternate
Turkish
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