bacha

bacha (plural bachas)

1. A dancing boy in parts of Central Asia.

• batcha

• Achab

From Malay baca, from Sanskrit वाचा (vācā).

• IPA^(key): /ba.t͡ʃa/
• Hyphenation: ba‧cha

bacha

1. read

Borrowed from Frankish *baki (“brook”).

bacha f (genitive bachae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) stream, brook

First-declension noun.

• bacha in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “bacha”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “bacha”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 76