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Bach

proper nounproper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//bɑːx//
  • United Kingdom//bɑːk//

A surname from German.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from German.

  2. 2

    Johann Sebastian Bach, a German organist and composer.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der. Proto-Germanic *bakiz Proto-West Germanic *baki Old High German bah Middle High German bach German Bachbor. English Bach From German Bach. The surname was brought to the Anglo-Saxon world by immigrants from other Germanic countries. Doublet of Beach.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Vietnamese.

Etymology

Borrowed from Vietnamese Bạch. Doublet of Bai.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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