bacanak

== Turkish == === Etymology === Inherited from Ottoman Turkish باجاناق (bacanaḳ) or باجیناق (bacınaḳ) or باجناح (bacanaḥ), from Proto-Turkic *bāčanak, possibly from *bāča (“elder sister, husbands of sisters”), whence also bacı (“sister”), however this etymology has some contention due to uncertain suffix structure. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ba.d͡ʒaˈnak/ Hyphenation: ba‧ca‧nak === Noun === bacanak (definite accusative bacanağı, plural bacanaklar) husband of one's wife's sister, co-brother-in-law (colloquial) buddy, friend ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Armenian: բաջանաղ (baǰanaġ) Bulgarian: баджанак (badžanak) Northern Kurdish: bacenax Macedonian: баџанак (badžanak) Serbo-Croatian: pašanac, pašenog Greek: μπατζανάκης (batzanákis) ==== See also ==== bacı baldız enişte kayınço, kayın, kayınbirader === References === === Further reading === “bacanak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “bacanak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 416