baku

Borrowed from Japanese 獏 (“spirit that feeds on nightmares”).

baku

1. (Japanese mythology, mythology) A type of supernatural being said to devour nightmares.
   • 2005, David Booth, Story Drama, 2nd edition, Pembroke Publishers, page 49,

     The creature explained that he was a baku. A baku eats dreams and nightmares. To a baku, a bad dream is delicious!

   • 2008, "Baku", entry in Brenda Rosen, The Mythical Creatures Bible, Octopus Publishing Group, page 113,

     A person awakening from a nightmare should call three times saying, "Baku, eat my dreams." Thus summoned, the Baku will turn bad omens into good fortune by devouring evil influences.

   • 2012, Kris Bradley, Mrs. B's Guide to Household Witchery, Weiser Books, page 28:

     Shouting out "Devour my dream, Baku!" is said to bring Baku to a child's side to take away his or her bad dreams. Not only does Baku take the dreams away, but he also leaves good fortune in their place.

baku

1. one another, each other

baku

1. imperative of baki

Clipping of bakteeri +‎ -u

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑku/, [ˈbɑ̝ku]
• Rhymes: -ɑku
• Syllabification^(key): ba‧ku
• Hyphenation^(key): ba‧ku

baku

1. (slang, biology) synonym of bakteeri (“bacterium”)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbaku/ [ˈba.ku]
• Rhymes: -aku
• Syllabification: ba‧ku
• Homophone: Baku

Borrowed from Manado Malay baku-, from Ternate maku-.

baku

1. (chiefly dialectal, eastern Indonesia) mutually, reciprocally, each other, one another

   Synonyms: saling, satu dengan lain, satu sama lain

Uncertain, probably via Malay.

• From Javanese ꦧꦏꦸ (baku, “main, essential, basic; rice-field given to a village head instead of salary”).
• For the sense of standard, probably from Minangkabau baku (“frozen”) (cognate with beku).
• Or probably from the same origin as etymology 1, from Manado Malay baku- (“each other”).

baku (comparative lebih baku, superlative paling baku)

1. main

   Synonym: utama

2. principal

   Synonym: pokok

baku (plural baku-baku)

1. core, base, fundamental

   Synonyms: pokok, dasar, utama

2. standard

   Synonym: standar

   bahasa baku ― standard language

3. (dialectal, Java) members of the village community who are the core population whom own agricultural land, houses and yards

From Wolio baku (“provision”).

baku (uncountable)

1. (dialect) assistance from family members to the bride and groom as provisions for them to enter a new household

Borrowed from Tolaki [Term?].

baku (plural baku-baku)

1. (dialectal, cooking) a kind of food, made from dried sago, fried together with coconut

Borrowed from Banggai [Term?].

baku (plural baku-baku)

1. coconut sweet potato

• “baku” 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.

baku

1. Rōmaji transcription of ばく
2. Rōmaji transcription of バク

baku

1. romanization of ꦧꦏꦸ

• IPA^(key): /baku/
• Rhymes: -aku
• Hyphenation: ba‧ku

Uncertain.

• From Javanese ꦧꦏꦸ (baku, “main, essential, basic; rice-field given to a village head instead of salary”).
• From Manado Malay baku- (“mutually, reciprocally, each other, one another”).

Another alternative proposal is that it is borrowed from Minangkabau baku (“frozen”), compare with beku.

baku (Jawi spelling باکو)

1. standard

   Synonyms: standard, piawai

   bahasa Melayu baku ― standard Malay

baku (Jawi spelling باکو, plural baku-baku)

1. (informal) The artificial standardized accent of Malay where every letter is prescribed only one sound (e.g. ⟨k⟩ is only pronounced [k] and ⟨a⟩ is only pronounced [a]).

   Synonym: bahasa baku

   Aku tak biasa cakap baku.

   I'm not used to speaking baku.

baku (Jawi spelling باکو)

1. (eastern Indonesia) each other, one another

   Synonym: saling

• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “baku”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 71

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

baku

1. alternative form of baku- (“mutually, reciprocally, each other, one another”)

baku (Raguileo spelling)

1. paternal grandfather
2. grandchild
3. namesake

• cezki
• cece

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

baku

1. alternative form of baku-

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.ku/

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• Rhymes: -aku
• Syllabification: ba‧ku

baku m inan

1. genitive/locative/vocative singular of bak

baku (Cyrillic spelling баку)

1. accusative singular of baka

baku (Sundanese script ᮘᮊᮥ)

1. must be

baku

1. to beat, to hit

From East Makian baku (“sago, sago palm”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.ku/

baku

1. sago
2. the sago palm

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics

From Japanese タバコ (tabako, “tobacco”).

baku

1. tobacco

• Chien Yuehchen (2015) “The lexical system of Yilan Creole”, in New Advances in Formosan Linguistics‎^[2], pages 513-532