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