bac

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bac"

Translingual

Symbol

bac

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Baduy.

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Baduy terms

English

Etymology 1

From French bac.

Noun

bac (plural bacs)

  1. A broad, flat-bottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.
  2. A vat or cistern.

Etymology 2

Noun

bac (plural bacs)

  1. Clipping of baccalaureate.
Derived terms

Anagrams

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

  1. Borrowed from South Slavic *bat'a rather than cognate with it.[1]
  2. From Proto-Albanian *batja. According to Orel bac/bacë could be related to Proto-Slavic *bat'a (elder brother, uncle) and Proto-Slavic *batja (id). Source of Romanian baci (chief shepherd, cheese-maker) and Megleno-Romanian/Aromanian batš (id).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [bat͡s]

Noun

bac m (plural bacë, definite baca, definite plural bacët)

  1. elder brother
  2. uncle

References

  1. ^ Hyllested first1=Adam, Joseph, Brian (2022) “13-Albanian”, in Thomas Olander, editor, The Indo-European language family
  2. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “Alb. bac m Pl. baca ('elder brother, uncle')”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 13

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

bac m (plural bacs)

  1. alternative form of obac (shady spot)

Etymology 2

Cognate with French bac.

Noun

bac m (plural bacs)

  1. vat
  2. ferry

Further reading

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbat͡s]

Verb

bac

  1. second-person singular imperative of bacit

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bak/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Homophone: BAC

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French bac, from Old French bas, bac- (flat boat), of obscure origin. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *baccu (container), from Latin bacar (kind of wine glass). Or, possibly borrowed from Celtic or Germanic, from Proto-Germanic *baką (back, rear).

Noun

bac m (plural bacs)

  1. ferry
  2. vat
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Catalan: bac
  • Dutch: bak
    • Afrikaans: bak
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: baksi
    • Negerhollands: bak
      • Virgin Islands Creole: bak, baks (archaic)
    • Caribbean Hindustani: báki
    • Caribbean Javanese: bak, bag
    • Indonesian: bak, baki
    • Javanese: ꦧꦏ꧀ (bak)
    • Papiamentu: baki (from the diminutive)
    • Sranan Tongo: baki
      • Caribbean Javanese: baki
  • English: bac

Etymology 2

Clipping of baccalauréat.

Noun

bac m (plural bacs)

  1. (informal) high school exit exam in France; A level, matura

Further reading

Anagrams

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish bacc (angle, bend, corner), from Proto-Celtic *bakkos (hook).

The verb is from Old Irish baccaid (hinders, prevents, impairs; lames), from the noun.

Pronunciation

Noun

bac m (genitive singular baic, nominative plural baic)

  1. barrier, block, balk, hindrance
  2. bottleneck, trap
  3. blocking, obstruction
  4. constraint, handicap, impediment, encumbrance
  5. stop
  6. mattock
  7. bend (in river, etc.)
  8. (door-)step
  9. (law) stay (of proceedings)

Declension

Declension of bac (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative bac baic
vocative a bhaic a bhaca
genitive baic bac
dative bac baic
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an bac na baic
genitive an bhaic na mbac
dative leis an mbac
don bhac
leis na baic

Derived terms

  • aerbhac m (airlock)
  • bac poitéinsiúil m (potential barrier)
  • bacainn (barrier)

Descendants

Verb

bac (present analytic bacann, future analytic bacfaidh, verbal noun bacadh, past participle bactha) (ambitransitive)

  1. to obstruct, block
  2. (intransitive) to interfere [with le ‘with’]

Conjugation

Descendants

Mutation

Mutated forms of bac
radical lenition eclipsis
bac bhac mbac

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

Middle English

Noun

bac

  1. alternative form of bak (back)

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French bac.

Noun

bac n (plural bacuri)

  1. ferry
Declension
Declension of bac
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative bac bacul bacuri bacurile
genitive-dative bac bacului bacuri bacurilor
vocative bacule bacurilor

Etymology 2

Clipping of bacalaureat

Noun

bac n (plural bacuri)

  1. baccalaureat
Declension
Declension of bac
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative bac bacul bacuri bacurile
genitive-dative bac bacului bacuri bacurilor
vocative bacule bacurilor

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish baccaid (hinders, prevents, impairs; lames), from bacc (angle, bend, corner), from Proto-Celtic *bakkos (hook).

Noun

bac m (genitive singular baca or baic, plural bacan)

  1. delay, obstacle, hindrance
  2. peat bank
  3. sandbank

Verb

bac (past bhac, future bacaidh, verbal noun bacadh, past participle bacte)

  1. to prevent, hinder, obstruct, restrain

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of bac
radical lenition
bac bhac

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bak/

Noun

bac

  1. soft mutation of pac

Mutation

Mutated forms of pac
radical soft nasal aspirate
pac bac mhac phac

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.