башка

Compare to Uzbek boshqa, Turkish başka, etc.

башка • (başka) (comparative [please provide], superlative [please provide], Arabic spelling باشقا)

1. other

   Synonym: өзгө (özgö)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish باشقه (Turkish başka).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaʃka]

башка • (baška) (not comparable)

1. separate

башка • (baška) (not comparable)

1. separately
2. that's another matter

From a Turkic language, probably a borrowing of a dative singular form attested in Kipchak languages; compare Tatar баш (baş, “head”), Bashkir башҡа (başqa, literally “head.SG.DAT”).

Initial (in 17th century) meaning 'head of a large fish' implies an origin related to fish trade in South Russia (e.g. on Volga and Don).

• IPA^(key): [bɐʂˈka]

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башка́ • (bašká) f inan (genitive башки́, nominative plural башки́, genitive plural башо́к)

1. (colloquial, derogatory) pate, noggin, bonce (slang word for head, part of the body)

   Поду́май свое́й башко́й о после́дствиях!

   Podúmaj svojéj baškój o poslédstvijax!

   Use your noggin, think of the consequences!

• башкови́тый (baškovítyj)

Phrases

• лы́сая башка́, дай пирожка́ (lýsaja bašká, daj pirožká)
• отва́л башки́ (otvál baškí)

• баш (baš), баш на баш (baš na baš)
• башибузу́к m anim (bašibuzúk)
• башка́н m anim (baškán, “governor of Gagauzia”)
• башлы́к m (bašlýk)

• → Polish: baśka

• голова́ (golová) (neutral term)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “башка”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “башка”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 79
• Shansky, N. M. (1965) “башка”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1, number 2 (Б), Moscow: Moscow University Press, page 62
• Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “башка”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
• Krylov, G. A. (2004) “башка”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Victory, →ISBN
• Anikin, A. E. (2008) “башка”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 2 (ба – бдынъ), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 307

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “башка”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.

Compare to Kyrgyz башка (başka), Kazakh басқа (basqa), Uzbek boshqa, Turkish başka, etc.

башка • (baška)

1. other

   Synonym: ӧскӧ (öskö)