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
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 | — |
| 9 | Egyptian | 𓄤 | — |
Words derived from “bakan”