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Borrowed from Japanese 獏 (“spirit that feeds on nightmares”).

baku

1. (Japanese mythology) A type of supernatural being said to devour nightmares.
   • 2005, David Booth, Story Drama, 2nd edition, Pembroke Publishers, page 49,

     The creature explained that he was a baku. A baku eats dreams and nightmares. To a baku, a bad dream is delicious!

   • 2008, "Baku", entry in Brenda Rosen, The Mythical Creatures Bible, Octopus Publishing Group, page 113,

     A person awakening from a nightmare should call three times saying, "Baku, eat my dreams." Thus summoned, the Baku will turn bad omens into good fortune by devouring evil influences.

   • 2012, Kris Bradley, Mrs. B's Guide to Household Witchery, Weiser Books, page 28:

     Shouting out "Devour my dream, Baku!" is said to bring Baku to a child's side to take away his or her bad dreams. Not only does Baku take the dreams away, but he also leaves good fortune in their place.

baku

1. one another, each other

baku

1. imperative of baki

Clipping of bakteeri +‎ -u

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑku/, [ˈbɑ̝ku]
• Rhymes: -ɑku
• Syllabification^(key): ba‧ku

baku

1. (slang, biology) Synonym of bakteeri (“bacterium”)

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaku]
• Hyphenation: ba‧ku

Most likely from Malay [Term?], reconstructed as ber- (“to have; to engage in reciprocal situation”) +‎ aku (“I, my, me”). Doublet of beraku. Malay etymon may be :

• borrowed via Javanese ꦧꦏꦸ (baku, “main, essential, basic; rice-field given to a village head instead of salary”).
• borrowed via Manado Malay baku- (“mutually, reciprocally, each other, one another”).

The sense “standard” is a semantic loan from Dutch standaard via Malay.

baku (first-person possessive bakuku, second-person possessive bakumu, third-person possessive bakunya)

1. core, base, fundamental

   Synonyms: pokok, dasar, utama

2. standard

   Synonym: standar

   Bahasa baku. ― Standard language.

3. (dialect, Java) members of the village community who are the core population whom own agricultural land, houses and yards.

• → Malay: baku (“standard”)

baku

1. mutually, reciprocally, each other, one another

   Synonyms: satu sama lain, saling, bersama

From Wolio baku (“provision”).

baku (first-person possessive bakuku, second-person possessive bakumu, third-person possessive bakunya)

1. (dialect) assistance from family members to the bride and groom as provisions for them to enter a new household.

From Tolaki [Term?].

baku (first-person possessive bakuku, second-person possessive bakumu, third-person possessive bakunya)

1. (dialect, cooking) a kind of food, made from dried sago, fried together with coconut.

• “baku” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

baku

1. Rōmaji transcription of ばく
2. Rōmaji transcription of バク

baku

1. Romanization of ꦧꦏꦸ.

• IPA^(key): /baku/
• Rhymes: -ku, -u
• Hyphenation: ba‧ku

One theory says that it is from Javanese baku (ꦧꦏꦸ, “main, essential, basic; rice-field given to a village head instead of salary”), most likely from Malay [Term?] (reconstructed as ber- (“to have”) +‎ aku (“first personal pronoun”), hence doublet of beraku). Several theories:

• Borrowed via Javanese ꦧꦏꦸ (baku, “main, essential, basic; rice-field given to a village head instead of salary”).
• Borrowed via Manado Malay baku- (“mutually, reciprocally, each other, one another”).

Another alternative proposal is that it is borrowed from Minangkabau baku (“frozen”), compare with beku.

• The sense “standard” is a semantic loan from Dutch standaard.

baku (Jawi spelling باکو)

1. standard

   Synonyms: standard, piawai

   bahasa Melayu baku ― standard Malay

baku (Jawi spelling باکو, plural baku-baku, informal 1st possessive bakuku, 2nd possessive bakumu, 3rd possessive bakunya)

1. (informal) The artificial standardized accent of Malay where every letter is prescribed only one sound (e.g. ⟨k⟩ is only pronounced [k] and ⟨a⟩ is only pronounced [a]).

   Synonym: bahasa baku

   Aku tak biasa cakap baku.

   I'm not used to speaking baku.

baku (Jawi spelling باکو)

1. (archaic) each other, one another

   Synonym: saling

• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “baku”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 71

• “baku” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

baku

1. alternative form of baku- (“mutually, reciprocally, each other, one another”)

baku (Raguileo spelling)

1. paternal grandfather
2. grandchild
3. namesake

• cezki
• cece

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.ku/

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• Rhymes: -aku
• Syllabification: ba‧ku

baku m inan

1. genitive/locative/vocative singular of bak

baku (Cyrillic spelling баку)

1. accusative singular of baka

baku

1. Romanization of ᮘᮊᮥ.

baku

1. to beat, to hit

From East Makian baku (“sago, sago palm”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.ku/

baku

1. sago
2. the sago palm

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics

From Japanese タバコ (tabako, “tobacco”).

baku

1. tobacco

• Chien Yuehchen (2015) “The lexical system of Yilan Creole”, in New Advances in Formosan Linguistics‎^[2], pages 513-532