бакана

Southern Altai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bakana (“pole, pillar, column”), or an early borrowing from a Mongolic source (compare Mongolian багана (bagana, “pole, column”)).

Cognate with Kazakh бағана (bağana, “pillar, column”), Karachay-Balkar багъана (bağana, “pillar, column”), Kumyk багъана (bağana), Tuvan багана (bagana, “pillar, column”), Yakut баҕана (bağana, “pillar, column”), etc.

Noun

бакана • (bakana)

1. pillar, column

References

N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “бакана”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN

Udihe

Noun

бакана (bakana)

1. one-year-old bear cub

References

• Maria Tolskaya; Evaluative Morphology in Udihe.