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English

Etymology

Clipping of babby (“babber”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæb/

Noun

bab (plural babs)

1. (Britain, informal) Baby
2. (fishing, East Anglia) A bait for eels, consisting of a bundle of live worms.

Synonyms

• (baby): see Thesaurus:baby
• (bait): clod

Verb

bab (third-person singular simple present babs, present participle babbing, simple past and past participle babbed)

1. (intransitive, fishing, East Anglia) To fish for eels using a bab.

Anagrams

• B.B.A., BBA, abb, abb.

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French barbe

Noun

bab

1. beard

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian bob, Slovak bôb, Russian ??? (bob, “bean”), from Proto-Slavic *bob?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?b]
• Rhymes: -?b

Noun

bab (plural babok)

1. bean

Declension

Synonyms

• fuszulyka (regional)
• paszuly (regional)

Derived terms

• babzsák
• kávébab
• szójabab

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay bab. From Arabic ????? (b?b).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bab/, [?bap?]

Noun

bab (plural bab-bab, first-person possessive babku, second-person possessive babmu, third-person possessive babnya)

1. chapter
2. door, gate

   Synonyms: gapura, pintu

3. case, matter

   Synonyms: hal, masalah

Further reading

• “bab” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Noun 1

bab m (genitive singular bab, nominative plural babanna)

1. Alternative form of bob (“bob; fringe”)

Noun 2

bab m (genitive singular bab, nominative plural babanna)

1. Alternative form of bob (“stump, target”)

Declension

Mutation

References

• "bab" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (b?b)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bap/
• Rhymes: -bap, -ap

Noun

bab (Jawi spelling ????, plural bab-bab, informal 1st possessive babku, impolite 2nd possessive babmu, 3rd possessive babnya)

1. chapter (section in a book)

Further reading

• “bab” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Meriam

Noun

bab

1. father or paternal uncle

Northern Kurdish

Alternative forms

• bav

Noun

bab m

1. father

Palauan

Etymology

From Pre-Palauan *babo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babaw, from Proto-Austronesian *babaw.

Adjective

bab

1. above, top

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bap/

Noun

bab f

1. genitive plural of baba

Rohingya

Alternative forms

• ????????????????? (bab) – Hanifi Rohingya script

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???? (vapra). Cognate with Sylheti ??? (baf), Assamese ??? (bap), Bengali ??? (bap), Hindi ??? (b?p)

Noun

bab (Hanifi spelling ????????????????)

1. father

   Synonym: baf

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Puter, Vallader) bap

Etymology

From Late Latin *babbus. Compare Sardinian babbu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ba?p]

Noun

bab m (plural babs)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) father

Coordinate terms

• mamma

See also

• pader (term to address a priest or monk)

Scots

Etymology 1

Compare bob, likely cognate of English bob, from Middle English bobben (“to strike, to shake”).

Verb

bab (third-person singular present babs, present participle babbin, past bab'd, past participle bab'd)

1. synonym of bob (“to move up and down”)
2. to dance, to hop

Etymology 2

From older Scots bob; compare Middle English bobbe (“cluster of fruit; spray of leaves”).

Noun

bab (plural babs)

1. nosegay, a bunch of flowers; a tassel, a bunch of ribbons
2. (in compounds) something fine, something decorated

3. a lump, dollop
4. (figuratively) a lumpish person, an idiot

Etymology 3

From Northern Middle English bab, a variant of babe

Noun

bab (plural babs)

1. (obsolete) a babe, baby

References

• “bab, v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
• “bobben v.¹”, in Middle English Compendium?^[4], November, 2019
• “bab, n.¹” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
• “bob, n.¹” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
• “bob, n.¹.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–, OCLC 57069714, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, ?OCLC
• “bobbe”, in Middle English Compendium?^[5], November, 2019
• “bab, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–, OCLC 57069714, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, ?OCLC

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bab m (genitive singular baba, plural baban or babannan)

1. tuft, tassel
2. child's excrement (hence abab)
3. stain

Related terms

• abab

References

• “bab” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Complied by Malcolm MacLennan)

Zazaki

Noun

bab (m)

1. father (sort form)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæb/
• Rhymes: -æb
• Hyphenation: cab

Etymology 1

Clipping of cabriolet

Noun

cab (plural cabs)

1. A taxi; a taxicab.
2. Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver

   Synonym: driver's compartment

3. Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower
4. Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet
   • 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

     Captain went out in the cab all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the cab. Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle fitted comfortably as if he had been John Manly over again. When the crupper was let out a hole or two it all fitted well. There was no check-rein, no curb, nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!

Hyponyms

• (compartment): crew cab, Eurocab, sleeper cab
• (four-wheeled carriage): black cab, hackney cab, Hansom cab, king cab

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

cab (third-person singular simple present cabs, present participle cabbing, simple past and past participle cabbed)

1. To travel by taxicab.

Etymology 2

From Hebrew ??? (káv).

Alternative forms

• kab

Noun

cab (plural cabs)

1. (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of volume, about equal to 1.3 L as a dry measure or 1.25 L as a liquid measure.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.3:

     […] in the famine of Samaria […] the fourth part of a cab of pigeon's dung was sold for five pieces of silver […]

Meronyms

• (liquid volume): log (¹?₄ cab); hin (3 cabs); bath (18 cabs); cor, kor, homer, chomer (180 cabs)
• (dry volume): seah (6 cabs); ephah (18 cabs); lethek, lethech (90 cabs); homer, chomer, cor, kor (180 cabs)

Etymology 3

Clipping of cabinet

Noun

cab (plural cabs)

1. (video games, informal) An arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.
2. (software, Windows) Alternative form of CAB; Clipping of cabinet file.; a compress library archive file.

References

• "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online
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Anagrams

• -bac-, A. B. C., A.B.C., ABC, B. C. A., B.C.A., BAC, BCA, CBA, bac

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cab.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kab?]

Noun

cab m (genitive singular caib, nominative plural cabanna)

1. mouth
2. muzzle

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “cab”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Italian

Etymology

From English cab

Noun

cab m (invariable)

1. Hansom cab

Anagrams

• abc

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

cab m (genitive singular caib, plural caban)

1. mouth

   Dùin do chab!

   Shut your mouth!

Somali

Verb

cab

1. drink

Swedish

Noun

cab c

1. a convertible car, one with a foldable roof; short for cabriolet

Declension