Where does “bacàn” come from?
bacàn (Ligurian) comes from Turkish bakan, from Arabic ناظر, from Arabic نَظَرَ, from Arabic ظ, from Arabic ط, from Nabataean 𐢋, from Classical Syriac ܛ, from Aramaic ט.
bacàn (Ligurian): master; father
Definitions
- master; father
Ancestry of “bacàn”, step by step
bacàn traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Turkish bakan
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turkish | bakan | minister |
| 2 | Arabic | ناظر | active participle of نَظَرَ; observer, viewer,... |
| 3 | Arabic | نَظَرَ | to look; to perceive with the eyes; to see |
| 4 | Arabic | ظ | — |
| 5 | Arabic | ط | ط |
| 6 | Nabataean | 𐢋 | — |
| 7 | Classical Syriac | ܛ | number nine |
| 8 | Aramaic | ט | — |
| 9 | Aramaic | 𐡈 | A letter of the Imperial Aramaic alphabet, named teth, transliterated as Latin ṭ |
| 10 | Egyptian | 𓄤 | — |
via Latin Bacchānālia
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | Bacchānālia | — |
| 2 | Latin | Bacchānal | place devoted to Bacchus, where the Bacchanalia where celebrated |
| 3 | Latin | Bacchus | the god of wine |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | Βάκχος | Bacchus |