Bashkir edit

 
Баҡа

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *b(i)āka (frog).[1]

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (baqa, frog);[2] Turkish bağa, Tatar бака (baqa), Kazakh бақа (baqa), Kumyk бакъа (baqa), Kyrgyz бака (baka), Southern Altai бака (baka), Tuvan пага (paga), Uyghur پاقا (paqa), Yakut баҕа (bağa, frog).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [bɑˈqɑ]
  • Hyphenation: ба‧ҡа

Noun edit

баҡа (baqa)

  1. frog
    баҡа ыуылдырығы
    baqa ıwıldırığı
    frogspawn

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*b(i)āka”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. ^ Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 82