bacë

Etymology
Svane suggests a borrowing from, a children's pronunciation of. Meyer and Çabej link it to (compare ). Another possible source is. Orel considers it an inherited word from, related to 🇨🇬 (see 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬; he argues that the Albanian word was borrowed into Romanian and 🇨🇬, whence it was borrowed into Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian.

Noun

 * 1) honorific or endearing word for (male) family members; such as older brother, uncle, cousin or another respected, older male
 * 2) honorific or endearing for father (regional)
 * 3) honorific or endearing for an unrelated/foreign older male (cf. english "aunty/uncle")