bağa
Azerbaijani edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Turkic *b(i)āka (“frog”). The sense 'turtle' developed as a back-formation of tısbağa (“turtle”), earlier literally 'stone frog'.
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
bağa (definite accusative bağanı, plural bağalar)
Declension edit
Declension of bağa | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | bağa |
bağalar | ||||||
definite accusative | bağanı |
bağaları | ||||||
dative | bağaya |
bağalara | ||||||
locative | bağada |
bağalarda | ||||||
ablative | bağadan |
bağalardan | ||||||
definite genitive | bağanın |
bağaların |
Further reading edit
- “bağa” in Obastan.com.
Salar edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Turkic *b(i)āka.
Noun edit
bağa (3rd person possessive [please provide], plural [please provide])
References edit
- Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “paga”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 434
Turkish edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Turkic *b(i)āka (“frog”).[1] Now it only appears in the language as a suffix in some animal names like kurbağa, kaplumbağa, tosbağa, etc.
Noun edit
bağa (definite accusative bağayı, plural bağalar)
Declension edit
Inflection | ||
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Nominative | bağa | |
Definite accusative | bağayı | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | bağa | bağalar |
Definite accusative | bağayı | bağaları |
Dative | bağaya | bağalara |
Locative | bağada | bağalarda |
Ablative | bağadan | bağalardan |
Genitive | bağanın | bağaların |
References edit
- ^ 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
Further reading edit
- “bağa”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
bağa