Kazakh

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Alternative scripts
Arabic باقا
Cyrillic бақа
Latin baqa
Yañalif ʙaqa
 
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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *b(i)āk(k)a ([uncertain meaning; possibilies include: frog or turtle/tortoise]). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (baka), Kyrgyz, Tatar бака (baqa), Bashkir баҡа (baqa), Tuvan пага (paga), Uyghur پاقا (paqa), Yakut баҕа (bağa), Turkish bağa, Kumyk бакъа (baqa) etc.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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бақа (baqa) (nominative plural бақалар)

  1. frog

Declension

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