baca

Acehnese Spelling
EBAYD	baca
Husaini	batja
Jawoe	باچ، بچا

• IPA^(key): /baˈca/
• Hyphenation: ba‧ca

From Sanskrit वाचा (vācā).

baca (Jawoe spelling باچ)

1. to read

   Synonym: beuet

   Teungöh geubaca kitap ― Reading a book

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /baˈca/
• Hyphenation: ba‧ca

baca (Jawoe spelling بچا)

1. quickly, hastily (movement)

   Baca bacut tajak ― Walking rather quickly

• “baca”, in Kamus Aceh Indonesia [Acehnese-Indonesian Dictionary] (Seri K; 85), Seri 1. A-L [Volume 1. A-L] (eBook; overall work in Indonesian), Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, 1985, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 46
• “بچا”, in Woordenboek der Atjehsche Taal [Dictionary of the Acehnese Language]‎^[1] (overall work in Dutch), Den Haag: 's Gravenhage : Martinus Nijhoff, 1889, page 31

From Latin vacca.

baca f (plural bacas)

1. superseded spelling of vaca (“cow”)

Borrowed from Classical Persian باجه (bāja).

baca (definite accusative bacanı, plural bacalar)

1. chimney
2. smokehole or a hole the ceiling through which air and light can enter a countryside building
3. a hatchway (e.g. leading to a sewer)
4. (Bilasuvar, Tabriz, Yardimli) window

   Synonym: pəncərə

5. (Julfa) niche

   Synonym: taxça

baca (definite accusative bacanı, plural bacalar)

1. (Balakan) synonym of bacanaq

• “baca” in Obastan.com.

Borrowed from French bâche (“tarpaulin”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈba.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈba.ka]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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• Rhymes: -aka
• Hyphenation: ba‧ca
• Homophone: vaca (Central Catalan)

baca f (plural baques)

1. luggage rack, roof rack (of a car)
2. synonym of lona

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “baca”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
• “baca”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “baca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

Borrowed from Indonesian baca.

baca (Hangul spelling 바짜)

1. to read

baca f

1. alternative form of vaca

From Proto-Central Pacific *baca, from Proto-Oceanic *bayan, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *bayan, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *bayan (“bait”).

baca

1. worm, bait (especially for fishing)

   E rawa ni o solia vei au eso na baca meꞌu qoli kina?

   Could you give me some bait for fishing?

2. (figurative) bait, enticement, especially one with deceitful intent

   O iko baca cava?

   What bait are you using?

baca (transitive bacana) (intransitive)

1. to put on bait (such as on a hook)

   Au na bacana na siwa oqo.

   I will bait this fishing line.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “related to the etymology above with possible shift from "bad bait" → "sickness"?"”)

baca (Kadavu, Lau)

1. sick, ill, injured

   E baca tiko na luvequ tagane.

   My son is sick.

baca (Kadavu, Lau)

1. illness, sickness, injury

   Synonym: tauvimate

   Na baca e tauva na koro taucoko.

   The illness affected the entire village.

• Gatty, Ronald (2009), “baca”, in Fijian–English Dictionary‎^[2], Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 10

From Malay baca, from Sanskrit वाचा (vācā, “speech, word”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbat͡ʃa/ [ˈba.t͡ʃa]
• Rhymes: -at͡ʃa
• Syllabification: ba‧ca

baca (active membaca, passive dibaca)

1. to read (to look at and interpret letters or other information)

   Dia sedang membaca koran di teras.

   He is reading a newspaper on the terrace.

2. to read (to speak aloud words or other information that is written)

   Synonym: bacakan

   Setiap hari di kelas akan disuruh bergiliran membaca.

   Every day in class we will be asked to take turns reading.

3. to recite, to read aloud a verse or content of a (especially religious) book

   Bacakan surah Al-Baqarah ayat 183!

   Recite Al-Baqara verse 183!

4. (informal, linguistics) to pronounce

   Kata "finger" itu dibacanya "fi-nger", bukan "fin-jer".

   The word "finger" is pronounced "fi-nger", not "fin-jer".

• → Cia-Cia: baca

• “baca”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

baca (plural bacas)

1. berry

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.ka/
• Rhymes: -aka
• Hyphenation: bà‧ca

baca

1. inflection of bacare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• bacca

Unknown. Possibly:

• If from Proto-Indo-European, it may be connected to Lithuanian bapkas (“berry, laurel”), which renders a sound-symbolic root *bab- (“to be round; small fruit”), evolving into *bab-ca and finally bā̆(c)ca (with compensatory lengthening or gemination).^[1] This etymology suffers from phonological problems as well as the paucity of cognates, but for the alternation compare the pairs cippus : cīpus and littera : lītera.
• Somehow related to Ancient Greek Βάκχος (Bákkhos, “Bacchus; twig used as a symbol of Bacchus?”), which cannot be inherited and may be Pre-Greek or Anatolian in origin.
• More likely, from a local substrate source perhaps shared with Proto-Berber *bqā (“blackberry, mulberry, shrub berry”).^[2]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbaː.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbaː.ka]

bāca f (genitive bācae); first declension

1. various small fruit of trees and shrubs: a berry, stone fruit (including olives, cherries)
   • 23 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis historia 16.219:

     Et hāctenus sint speciēs ac genera pōmōrum: nātūrās artius colligī pār est. alia siliquīs distinguntur, ipsīs dulcibus sēmenque conplexīs amārum, cum in plūribus sēmina placeant, in siliquā damnentur; alia bācīs, quārum intus lignum et extrā carō, ut olīvīs, cerasīs; aliquōrum intus bācae, forīs lignum, ut iīs quae in Aegyptō dīximus gignī. quae bācīs nātūra, eadem et pōmīs.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. an olive fruit in particular, an olive-berry

   Synonyms: olīva, olea

   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 2.519:

     Venit hiems: teritur Sicyonia baca trapetis,
     glande sues laeti redeunt, dant arbuta silvae;
     et varios ponit fetus autumnus et alte
     mitis in apricis coquitur vindemia saxis.

     • Translation by James B. Greenough

       Winter is come: in olive-mills they bruise
       The Sicyonian berry; acorn-cheered
       The swine troop homeward; woods their arbutes yield;
       So, various fruit sheds Autumn, and high up
       On sunny rocks the mellowing vintage bakes.

3. a pearl

   Synonyms: margarīta, margarītum

4. a coral bead or piece

First-declension noun.

• “baca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “baca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "baca", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “baca”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Sanskrit वाचा (vācā).

• (Standard Literary) IPA^(key): /ˈbat͡ʃa/ [ˈba.t͡ʃa]

• (Standard Southern Peninsula) IPA^(key): /ˈbat͡ʃə/ [ˈba.t͡ʃə]
• Rhymes: -at͡ʃə, -t͡ʃə, -ə

• Audio (Malaysia, Johor-Selangor):

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baca (Jawi spelling باچ)

1. to read

• bacaan
• membaca
• membacakan
• pembaca

• Indonesian: baca
• → Cebuano: basa
• → Hiligaynon: bása
• → Ilocano: bása
• → Minangkabau: baco
• → Sundanese: baca
• → Tagalog: basa
• → Urak Lawoi': บาจา (baca)

• "baca" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑkɑ/

baca

1. genitive plural of bæc
2. genitive plural of bæċ

• bacza (archaic)

Borrowed from Romanian baci, further etymology disputed. Originally bacza, but was changed to the current form due to mazurzenie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.t͡sa/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -at͡sa
• Syllabification: ba‧ca

baca m pers

1. an elder shepherd from Karpaty

   Hypernym: pasterz

   Coordinate term: juhas

• “baca”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “baca”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaka]

baca f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of bacă

From Proto-Turkic *bāča.

• (Xunhua, Qinghai, Ili, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): /pɑʝɑ/

baca (3rd person possessive bacası, plural bacalar)

1. friend, acquaintance
2. (archaic, dialectal) one's wife's sister's husband

   Coordinate term: exingi

• Ma, Chengjun; Han, Lianye; Ma, Weisheng (December 2010), “baca”, in 米娜瓦尔·艾比布拉 [Minavar Abibra], editor, 撒维汉词典 [Sā-Wéi-Hàn cídiǎn, Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 31
• Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “paǰa”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow: Nauka, page 435
• 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1992), “baca”, in 撒拉汉汉撒拉词汇 [Salar-Chinese, Chinese-Salar Vocabulary], 成都 [Chéngdū]: 四川民族出版社, →ISBN, page 26
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002), “bɑʝɑ”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎^[5], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 53

baca m

1. genitive singular of bac

baca (Cyrillic spelling баца)

1. third-person singular present of bacati

• IPA^(key): /bǎːtsḁ/

baca m

1. older brother

• Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaka/ [ˈba.ka]
• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: ba‧ca
• Homophone: vaca

Borrowed from French bâche (“tarpaulin”).

baca f (plural bacas)

1. (Spain) luggage rack

   Synonyms: portaequipajes, parrilla

From Latin bacca, variant of bāca.

baca f (plural bacas)

1. laurel berry

• “baca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

From Malay baca, from Sanskrit वाचा (vācā, “speech, voice”).

baca (Sundanese script ᮘᮎ)

1. to read

From Malay baca.

• IPA^(key): [ˈba.t͡ʃa]

baca

1. (transitive) to read

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish باجه (baca), borrowed from Persian باجه (bāja).

• IPA^(key): /badʒa/

baca (definite accusative bacayı, plural bacalar)

1. chimney