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bacha

name · noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • CMU ARPABET: B AE1 CH AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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2

noun

Meaning 2

A dancing boy in parts of Central Asia.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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History

Etymology

* As a Slovak, Czech and Serbo-Croatian surname, Americanized from Bača (“senior shepherd”); see Baca. * As a Hungarian surname, Americanized from Bacsa, from the placename Baksa, probably also influenced by the above. * As an Islamic surname, from a French-influenced form of Basha (also see Pasha).

Borrowed from Persian بچه.