bagan

bagan

1. toilet

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

From Arabic بَغْل (baḡl). Possibly cognate with Eastern Maninkakan bíyan.

bagan

1. animal, beast
2. livestock

• Richard Nci Diarra, Lexique bambara-français-anglais, December 13, 2010

From Arabic بَغْل (baḡl).

bagan

1. animal, beast
2. fool

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.ɡan/
• Rhymes: -ɡan, -an, -n
• Hyphenation: ba‧gan

Inherited from Malay bagan.

bagan (plural bagan-bagan)

1. framework, scaffolding
2. open platform
3. quay, wharf
4. synonym of pangkalan
5. blueprint, design, plan, outline
6. scheme

   Synonym: skema

7. sketch

   Synonym: sketsa

8. (statistics) chart

Borrowed from Minangkabau [Term?]. Cognate of Malay bagan.

bagan (plural bagan-bagan)

1. fishing platform

From Riau Malay [Term?]. Cognate of Malay bagan.

bagan (plural bagan-bagan)

1. a rest stop for people who search for wood or rubber in the forest, in the form of a roof that slopes to one side, has four poles, and a low platform floor

• “bagan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Unknown. Compare Urak Lawoi' บากฺัด (bagat, “long-term camping for food foraging”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɡan/ [ˈba.ɡan]

bagan (Jawi spelling باݢن, plural bagan-bagan)

1. platform for drying fish
2. landing place

   Synonym: pangkalan

3. scaffolding, framework
4. outline sketch

• Indonesian: bagan

• “bagan” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Inherited from Assamese বাগান (bagan), from Persian باغ (bâġ).

bagan (plural bagankhan)

1. garden

• pāgan

From Proto-Germanic *bēganą.

bāgan

1. to fight
   • ca. 850, Muspilli lines 37-38:

     daz hōrtih rahhōn / dia uueroltrehtuuīson,
     daz sculi der antichristo / mit Eliase pāgan.

     This I heard wise men say: that the Antichrist must fight Elias.

• bāg
• bāga
• bāgēn

• Middle High German: bāgen
  • ⇒ German: bägern
  • Bavarian: bägen
  • ⇒ Swabian: bägeren
• → Middle French: bagarot
• → Occitan: bagarro
  • → French: bagarre; bagarrer
    • → Italian: bagarre