bak

bak

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Bashkir.

bak (not comparable)

1. (text messaging) Abbreviation of back.

From Korean 박 (bak).

bak (plural baks)

1. A wooden clapper used in Korean courts and rituals

• bak tong gou

• BKA, kab

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bak

1. trunk (of a tree)

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

• IPA^(key): /bak/

From Dutch bak, from French bac.

bak (plural bakke, diminutive bakkie)

1. covered bowl, basin
2. tub, vat
3. boot (UK), trunk (US) of a car

From Dutch bakken, from Middle Dutch backen.

bak (present bak, present participle bakkende, past participle gebak)

1. to bake
2. to fry

Either a variant of bark, or from Proto-Albanian *bauka, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw (“to blow, swell”), close to Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, body”), Dutch buik (“belly”), German Bauch (“belly, stomach”), Swedish buk (“belly, abdomen”).

bak m (plural baqe, definite baku, definite plural baqet)

1. belly, stomach

• bark
• lukth

• bakull

• bukur

• IPA^(key): /bak/
• Rhymes: -ak
• Hyphenation: bak

Borrowed from Dutch bak (“container, vessel”).

bak (Balinese script ᬩᬓ᭄)

1. container
2. water container

Borrowed from Hokkien 墨 (ba̍k, “Chinese ink”).

bak (Balinese script ᬩᬓ᭄)

1. black Chinese ink

• “bak”, in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia] (in Balinese), Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

• IPA^(key): /bɑk/

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• Hyphenation: bak
• Rhymes: -ɑk

From French bac.

bak m (plural bakken, diminutive bakje n)

1. container, such as a box, a crate, a tray or a tub

   Synonym: krat

2. (informal, usually in the plural) a large amount, lots

   Het regent bakken met water. ― It's raining lots of water.

3. (Netherlands) drinking vessel, usually a cup or mug

   Synonyms: kop, mok

4. (informal, Netherlands, Belgium, Bargoens) the slammer, jail, prison

   Synonyms: bajes, gevang, gevangenis, lik, nor

5. (colloquial) a vehicle, a car

   Synonyms: auto, kar, wagen, waggie

6. (rail transport) railway carriage

• Afrikaans: bak
• Berbice Creole Dutch: baksi
• Negerhollands: bak
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: bak, baks (archaic)
• → Caribbean Hindustani: báki
• → Caribbean Javanese: bak, bag
• → Indonesian: bak, baki
  • → Javanese: ꦧꦏꦶ (baki)
  • → Ternate: baki
• → Javanese: ꦧꦏ꧀ (bak)
• → Papiamentu: baki (from the diminutive)
• → Sranan Tongo: baki
  • → Caribbean Javanese: baki

From versnellingsbak, from etymology 1.

bak m (plural bakken, diminutive bakje n)

1. short for versnellingsbak

• handbak

bak m (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. The act of baking (food).

• koekenbak
• wafelbak

bak

1. inflection of bakken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

From Middle Dutch *bak, bake, baec (“meat from the back of a pig”), from Old Dutch *bak (“back, rear”), from Proto-Germanic *baką. Cognate with English back, Icelandic bak. Etymologically related to bakboord and achterbaks.

bak m (plural bakken, diminutive bakje n)

1. The meat of a pig, pork.
2. A pig.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

bak m (plural bakken, diminutive bakje n)

1. A joke, crack.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

• IPA^(key): /bak/

bak

1. eye

• “bak”, in Kamus Digital Bahasa Enggano [Enggano-Indonesian-English dictionary] (in Indonesian), 2026

From Old Norse bak, from Proto-Germanic *baką.

bak n (genitive singular baks, plural bøk)

1. (anatomy) back

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

bak

1. (follows locative case -cha) side, position, in the direction of
2. part, section

From French barque (“small boat”).

• IPA^(key): /bak/

bak

1. ferryboat, flat-bottomed boat
2. tray used by street vendors

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[4], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN

For pronunciation and definitions of bak – see 沐 (“to stain”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 沐).

From German Bock (“buck”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɒk]
• Rhymes: -ɒk

bak (plural bakok)

1. buck (a male goat, or the male of other small ruminants, such as the chamois or roe)
   • 1981, Gyula Viga, “Az állatok, a tartás technikája”, in Népi kecsketartás Magyarországon‎^[5]:

     Bakot főként a pásztorok tartottak, általában 40-50 jerkére egyet.

     Bucks were mostly kept by herders, usually one for every 40-50 does.

2. (historical) box seat, box (driver’s seat on a horse-drawn carriage or cart)
   • 1856, Mór Jókai, “A rém”, in A régi jó táblabírák:

     A kocsis mellett a bakon ült az ispán, akinek jó volt ott is.

     The count was sitting next to the coachman on the box, which suited him just fine.

3. trestle, sawhorse (support, usually made of wooden beams, with a pair of divergent legs at each end)
   • 2007, István Balogh, “Törökkávé”, in Szilveszter Szilveszter‎^[6]:

     Az öreg ladikot fenékkel fölfelé két bakra állítják.

     The old punt is placed bottom up on two trestles.

4. drawing horse, donkey bench (short bench for art students, with a raised end used to prop up a drawing board)
   • 2010, Katalin Vámosi, “Mazsaroff Miklós életének főbb mozzanatai”, in Mazsaroff Miklós 1929–1997: A természet igézetében‎^[7]:

     A mester teraszán rajzoltunk a nemrégiben beszerzett néhány bakon.

     We used to draw on the master’s terrace on a couple of recently acquired drawing horses.

5. (in set phrases) boost, leg up (cupping one’s hands so as to form a step for someone who is attempting to climb)
   • 2009, László Béres, “Utca így még nem várt karácsonyt”, in Petőfi Népe‎^[8], volume 64, number 3:

     Ugyan már, bakot tart, én kimászok, leadom a létrát és mindketten kint vagyunk a gödörből.

     Oh come on, you give me a leg up, I climb out, lower the ladder, and we’re both out of the pit.

• bak in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• bak in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

From Old Norse bak, from Proto-Germanic *baką.

• IPA^(key): /paːk/
• Rhymes: -aːk

bak n (genitive singular baks, nominative plural bök)

1. (anatomy) back
2. back, backside

• ber er hver að baki, nema sér bróður eigi
• stólbak

• IPA^(key): /bak/
• Hyphenation: bak

bak

1. preposition to denote comparison
   • kedua anak muda itu wajahnya mirip, bak pinang dibelah dua

From Dutch bak (“container, vessel”).

• IPA^(key): /bɑk/
• Hyphenation: bak

bak

1. container
2. water container

From Hokkien 墨 (ba̍k, “ink; Chinese ink”).

• IPA^(key): /bak/
• Hyphenation: bak

bak

1. black Chinese ink

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /bak/
• Hyphenation: bak

bak

1. sound of slapping or punching

• “bak”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Derived from English back.

• IPA^(key): /bak/

bak

1. back
   • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, 2 Korintiyan 6:12:

     Wi naa uol bak wi lov fi unu bot unu a uol bak fi unu lov fi wi.

     We don't hold back our love for you but you hold back your love for us.

bak (plural bak dem, quantified bak)

1. back (of the body)

   Mi bak de hat mi.

   My back is hurting.

• bak at majstro.com

bak

1. romanization of ꦧꦏ꧀

bak

1. second-person singular imperative of baken

From Old English bæc, from Proto-West Germanic *bak, from Proto-Germanic *baką.

• bac, bacc, back, backe, bakke, bakk, bake

• IPA^(key): /bak/

bak (plural bakkes)

2. The back, hind, or rear of a being's body:
   • c. 1300, Havelok, Havelok the Dane

     Summe putten with gleyue in bac and side, And yeuen wundes longe and wide.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   1. (figurative) What a person or creature carries or takes with themself/itself.
   2. (rare) The parts of a person which aren't visible to themself.
3. The back, of something more generally; the non-facing side.
4. The vertebrae or spine; the bone holding up the back.
5. (rare) The extremities, margin or boundary of something.
6. (rare) The fur or hide of an animal (removed from an animal)

• English: back
• Scots: back, bak, bake

• beli
• behinde

• “bak, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 September 2018.

From abak.

• bac, bakk

bak

1. backward

• English: back
• Yola: bak

• “bak, adv. (& adj.).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

A shortening of Old Swedish nattbakka.

bak (bakkes)

1. alternative form of bakke (“bat”)

From Old Norse bak, from Proto-Germanic *baką.

bak

1. at the back, behind

   bak fram - back to front

   for langt bak - too far back / behind

bak

1. behind

   bak kulissene - behind the scenes

bak m (definite singular baken, indefinite plural baker, definite plural bakene)
bak n (definite singular baket, indefinite plural bak, definite plural baka or bakene)

1. (anatomy) behind, bottom, backside

   et spark bak - a kick in / up the backside (etc.)

2. back, rear, seat (of trousers)
3. buttocks

bak

1. imperative of bake

• “bak” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse bak, from Proto-Germanic *baką.

• IPA^(key): /bɑːk/

bak

1. at the back, behind

   bak fram - back to front

   for langt bak - too far back / behind

bak

1. behind

   bak kulissane - behind the scenes

bak m (definite singular baken, indefinite plural bakar, definite plural bakane)
bak n (definite singular baket, indefinite plural bak, definite plural baka)

1. (anatomy) behind, bottom, backside

   eit spark bak - a kick in / up the backside (etc.)

2. back, rear, seat (of trousers)

• “bak” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Deverbal from bakać. First attested in 1448–1450.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /baːk/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /bɒk/

bak m animacy unattested

1. (attested in Masovia) shout, yell

   Synonym: bakliwość

   • 1895 [1448–1450], Mikołaj Suled, edited by Franciszek Piekosiński, Tłumaczenia polskie statutów ziemskich, Kodeks Świętosławów, Warka, page 9:

     Paan, sz bakem a s gwalthowym ghelkem przydancz do sandv (dominus cum clamore et violento strepitu ad iudicium veniens), wyną pyancznadzescza ma bicz skaran

     [Pan z bakiem a z gwałtowym giełkiem przydąc do sądu (dominus cum clamore et violento strepitu ad iudicium veniens), winą pięćnadzieścia ma być skaran]

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “bak”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

From Proto-West Germanic *bak, from Proto-Germanic *baką.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑk/

bak n

1. back (body part)
2. back (rear part of something)

• Middle Low German: bak
  • ⇒ Middle Low German: *huckebak
    • Low German: Huckeback
      • → German: huckepack

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /bak/

bak (Perso-Arabic spelling بک)

1. Co-lexicalized intensifier

• Henrik Liljegren; Naseem Haider (2011), “bak”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[9], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈbak/

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• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: bak
• Homophones: Bak, bug

Borrowed from Russian бак (bak), from Dutch bak or German Back or English back.

bak m inan

1. tank (fuel reservoir of a vehicle)

   Hypernym: zbiornik

2. tank (tankful)

tankful:

Borrowed from German Backenbart.

bak m inan (diminutive baczek)

1. sideburn

   Synonyms: baczek, bokobrody, faworyt

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bak f

1. genitive plural of baka

• bak in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bak in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• M. Arcta Słownik Staropolski/Bak on the Polish Wikisource.Wikisource ^pl

From Dutch bak.

• IPA^(key): /bak/

bak

1. a water-basin

• Leontine Visser, Clemens Voorhoeve (1987), Sahu-Indonesian-English Dictionary, Brill

• IPA^(key): /bɑːk/

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From Old Swedish baker, from Old Norse bak, from Proto-Germanic *baką. Related to English back.

bak (not comparable)

1. behind, at the back

• fram

• bakom
• bakre (adjective)
• bakerst (adverb)
• bakersta (adjective)
• bakerste (adjective)

bak

1. (dated) behind, 'hind

   när månen döljer sig bak vinrankan

   when the moon hides 'hind the grape vine

bak c

1. behind, ass, butt

bak n

1. baking

   Inget doftar som mors bak.

   Nothing smells like mom's baking.

Borrowed from Turkish bak.

bak (present bak, preterite bak, supine bak, imperative bak)

1. (slang) alternative form of bakk

• bak in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bak in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bak in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• bak in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Fula Ordboken
• Slangopedia

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bak

1. second-person singular imperative of bakmak

• → Swedish: bakk

bak

1. watch out, beware

bak

1. bone

• (Zinacantán) IPA^(key): /ɓäkʰ/

bak

1. bone

• kʼatin bak

• Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

From Middle English bak.

• IPA^(key): /bak/ (spelled back)^[1]

bak

1. back
   • 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, lines 19^[2]:

     A pipere vel bak lik own in a smote,

     The piper fell back like one well smitten,

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /paːk˧˥/
• Tone numbers: bag⁷
• Hyphenation: bak

From Proto-Tai *paːkᴰ (“mouth”).^[1]

In Northern Tai, cognate with Saek ป̄าก.

In Central Tai, cognate with Nong Zhuang baeg.

In Southwestern Tai, cognate with Thai ปาก (bpàak), Northern Thai ᨸᩣ᩠ᨠ, Lao ປາກ (pāk), Shan ပၢၵ်ႇ (pàak), Lü ᦔᦱᧅ (ṗaak), Tai Dam ꪜꪱꪀ, Ahom 𑜆𑜀𑜫 (pak), Tai Nüa ᥙᥣᥐᥱ (pǎak).

Compare Southern Kam bags (“mouth”), Proto-Be *ɓaːkᴰ¹ (“mouth”) (whence ɓak⁷ in modern lects).

Compare also Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baqbaq (whence Cebuano baba, Eastern Cham ꨚꨝꩍ (pabah), Hawaiian vaha).

bak (Sawndip forms 咟[2] or 㕷[2] or 北[2] or 𫩡[2] or 拍[2] or 剥[2] or 𠺣[2] or 吧[2], 1957–1982 spelling bak)

1. mouth
2. entrance; opening
3. account of or response to a particular issue
4. cutting edge of a tool
5. stitch; distance between stitches

From Chinese 百 (MC paek).

In Southewesten Tai, cognate with Thai ปาก (bpàak), Lao ປາກ (pāk), Lü ᦔᦱᧅ (ṗaak), Shan ပၢၵ်ႇ (pàak).

bak (1957–1982 spelling bak)

1. hundred