Where does “bacán” come from?
bacán (Spanish) comes from Ligurian bacàn, from Turkish bakan, from Arabic ناظر, from Arabic نَظَرَ, from Arabic ظ, from Arabic ط, from Nabataean 𐢋, from Classical Syriac ܛ.
bacán (Spanish): pimp; boss, owner; concubine
Definitions
- pimp; boss, owner; concubine
Ancestry of “bacán”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ligurian | bacàn | master; father |
| 2 | Turkish | bakan | minister |
| 3 | Arabic | ناظر | active participle of نَظَرَ; observer, viewer,... |
| 4 | Arabic | نَظَرَ | to look; to perceive with the eyes; to see |
| 5 | Arabic | ظ | — |
| 6 | Arabic | ط | ط |
| 7 | Nabataean | 𐢋 | — |
| 8 | Classical Syriac | ܛ | number nine |
| 9 | Aramaic | ט | — |
| 10 | Aramaic | 𐡈 | A letter of the Imperial Aramaic alphabet, named teth, transliterated as Latin ṭ |
| 11 | Egyptian | 𓄤 | — |