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- Spanish · borrowed fromBaz
- Persian · borrowed fromباز“falcon”
- English todayBaz
Two main origins: * Borrowed from Persian باز (bâz, “falcon”). * Borrowed from Spanish Baz.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A metasyntactic variable used to stand for some unspecified entity; typically the third in a series after foo and bar. Full definition →
Two main origins: * Borrowed from Persian باز (bâz, “falcon”). * Borrowed from Spanish Baz.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.