bác

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaːt͡s]
• Hyphenation: bác

bác

1. (onomatopoeia) boom (a sudden percussive sound)
2. signifies suddenness

   "Pozná děvče a bác! ožení se." ― "He meets a girl and boom! He's married."

• “bác”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “bác”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
• “bác”, in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2025, slovnikcestiny.cz

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): [baːt͡s]

bác

1. bang, bam (a sudden percussive sound)

• “bác”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [ɓaːk̚˧˥]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [ɓaːk̚˦]

bác

1. to chop

   bác mạy ― to chop trees

   bác nhả ― to cut grass

   thai bác ― to die from being slashed

• hẳm

Possibly from Vietnamese bác.

bác

1. to distill

   bác xáy ― to distill eggs

bác

1. bowl (from bamboo or wood)

• Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[1][2] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
• Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎^[3] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːk̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːk̚˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːk̚˦˥]

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From Late Proto-Vietic *paːk (“uncle, father/mother's older brother”), from Middle Chinese 伯 (MC paek, “uncle”) (SV: bá).

bác • (伯, 博)

1. an older adult; senior; elder
2. paternal uncle, father's elder brother
3. paternal aunt-in-law, father's elder brother's wife
4. (archaic) father

   bác mẹ

   parents

• bá

bác

1. you, someone who's presumably slightly older than one of my parents

   Antonyms: cháu, con

2. he/him/she/her, someone who's presumably slightly older than one of my parents

   Antonyms: cháu, con

3. (familiar) you, someone who's slightly older than me

   Synonyms: anh, chị

   Antonym: em

• Bác

bác

1. to scramble (eggs, etc.)

Sino-Vietnamese word from 駁.

bác

1. (often in compounds) to reject, to dismiss, to refute, to turn down

• IPA^(key): /βát͡s/
• Hyphenation: bác

bác (vocative hodác)

1. (to a male) sister-in-law

• Gladys A. Reichard (1925) Wiyot Grammar and Texts, University of California press, page 130
• Karl V. Teeter (1964) The Wiyot Language, University of California press, page 80