бага

From Proto-Abkhaz-Abaza *bagá, from Proto-Northwest Caucasian *bӏagá (“jackal; fox”).

• IPA^(key): [baɡa]

бага • (baga)

1. fox

• Nikolaev, Sergei L.; Starostin, Sergei A. (1994), “*bHV̆rgĂ”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎^[1], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers

Probably cognate with dialectal Russian ба́га (bága), бага́н (bagán, “natural spirit”), of uncertain origin.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaɡɐ]

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• Rhymes: -aɡɐ
• Syllabification^(key): ба‧га

ба́га • (bága) m or f

1. (dialectal, obsolete) fabled character, hero

• багате́л (bagatél) (with suffix -тел (-tel))

• Nayden Gerov; Тодор Панчев (1908), “багате́лъ”, in Допълнение на българския рѣчникъ [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language] (in Bulgarian), volume 6, Plovdiv: Печатница "Трудъ" на Петко Бѣловѣждовъ, page 12
• Anikin, A. E. (2008), “бага”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 2 (ба – бдынъ), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 47

Inherited from Proto-Nakh [Term?]. Cognates include Ingush бага (baga).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɡa/

бага • (baga) class dd

1. pine

• Matsiev, Akhmat G. (1961), Чеченско-русский словарь / Нохчийн-оьрсийн словарь [Chechen-Russian dictionary] (in Russian), Moscow: State Publishing House of Foreign and Ethnicity Dictionaries, page 43
• Nichols, Johanna; Vagapov, Arbi (2004), “бага”, in Chechen–English and English–Chechen Dictionary, London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, page 50a

бага • (baga)

1. love
2. frog (amphibian)

Perhaps from Sanskrit पाक (pāka, “child, infant, young of an animal”).

Cognate with Kalmyk баһ (bağ), East Yugur bagha, Khitan 𘮽𘯛 (*b qo, “son”).

• IPA^(key): /paɢ/, [päq]

бага • (baga) (Mongolian spelling ᠪᠠᠭ᠎ᠠ (bag-a))

1. small
2. few
3. young

• (small): жижиг (žižig), өчүүхэн (öčüüxen), жижигхэн (žižigxen)
• (young): залуу (zaluu), нялх (njalx)

• их (ix), том (tom, “big”)
• хуучин (xuučin, “old”)

• бага хурал (baga xural, “conference”)

бага • (baga)

1. a bit (a small amount)

бага • (baga)

1. slightly, a bit

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaɡə]

ба́га • (bága) m inan

1. genitive singular of баг (bag)