bakas
English
Noun
bakas
- plural of baka
Anagrams
Central Dusun
Noun
bakas
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbakas/
- Hyphenation: ba‧kas
Verb
bakas
- present of baki
Ido
Verb
bakas
- present of bakar
Maranao
Noun
bakas
- smoked tuna
Swedish
Verb
bakas
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- bacas — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
Etymology 1
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəkas. Compare Javanese ꦧꦼꦏꦱ꧀ (bekas) and Malay bekas.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /baˈkas/ [bɐˈxas]
- Rhymes: -as
- Syllabification: ba‧kas
Noun
bakás (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜃᜐ᜔)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈbakas/ [ˈbaː.xɐs]
- Rhymes: -akas
- Syllabification: ba‧kas
Noun
bakas (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜃᜐ᜔)
- partnership (in gambling or business)
- share of capital; money put in (in gambling or business)
- partner (in business)
Derived terms
- bakasan
- ibakas
- kabakas
- magbakas
- magkabakas
- magkakabakas
- pagbakas-bakasin
- pagbakasin
Further reading
- “bakas”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*bekas₃”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI