Where does “bacan” come from?
bacan (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.
bacan (Ligurian): master; father
Ancestry of “bacan”, step by step
| 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 | — |
| 10 | Egyptian | 𓄤 | — |