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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): /dæb/
• Rhymes: -æb

Etymology 1

From Middle English dabben (“to strike”), perhaps ultimately imitative. Comparable with Middle Dutch dabben (“to pinch, knead, fumble, dabble”) (Dutch dabben (“(of a horse) to stamp with the forelegs”)), Dutch deppen (“to dab”), possibly German tappen (“to fumble, grope”).

The noun is from Middle English dabbe (“a strike, blow”), from the verb. Related to tap. Compare also drub, dub.

African-American sense of “playful box” perhaps influenced by dap (“fistbump”).

Verb

dab (third-person singular simple present dabs, present participle dabbing, simple past and past participle dabbed)

1. (transitive) To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing.

2. (transitive) To apply a substance in this way.

3. To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.
   • 1532-1533, Thomas More, The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer

     to dabbe him in the necke

4. (slang) To apply hash oil to a heated surface for the purpose of efficient combustion.
5. (dance, intransitive) To perform the dab dance move, by moving both arms to one side of the body parallel with your head.
   • 2019, Stormzy, Vossi Bop

     Look, my brothas don't dab, we just vossi bop

Translations

Noun

dab (plural dabs)

1. A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow.
2. (African-American Vernacular) A soft, playful box given in greeting or approval.

   Coordinate terms: dap, fist bump, high five

   • page 197: I step closer to Profit and draw in a deep, steadying breath while the brothers exchange dabs. “What's up, fam? I see you finally made it.”

3. A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance.

   Synonym: blob

   1. (slang) A small amount of hash oil.
4. (chiefly in the plural, dated, Britain) Fingerprint.
5. (dance) A hip hop dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm, briefly resting their face in the elbow, as if sneezing into their elbow.

Related terms

• dap
• dob
• tap

Translations

Adverb

dab (not comparable)

1. With a dab, or sudden contact.

Translations

See also

• daub

Etymology 2

Perhaps corrupted from adept.

Noun

dab (plural dabs)

1. One skilful or proficient; an expert; an adept.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:skilled person

   • c. 1759-1770?, Oliver Goldsmith, Essay

     One excels at a plan or the title page, another works away at the body of the book, and the third is a dab at an index.

Derived terms

• dab hand
• dabster

Translations

Etymology 3

Late Middle English dabbe, of unknown origin; perhaps related to sense 1 (“to press against lightly”) as in "a soft mass dabbed down."

Noun

dab (plural dabs)

1. A small flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, especially Limanda limanda; a flounder.
2. (US) A sand dab, a small flatfish of genus Citharichthys.

Translations

Etymology 4

Back slang for bad.

Adjective

dab (comparative more dab, superlative most dab)

1. (obsolete, costermongers) Bad.

   Synonym: trosseno

   Antonyms: doog, doogheno

References

Further reading

• dab on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• dab (dance) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Oxford English Dictionary (1989)
• dab at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• ABD, ADB, Abd., BDA, D.B.A., DBA, abd., bad, d/b/a, dba

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English dab.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?p/
• Hyphenation: dab
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

dab m (uncountable)

1. (dance) The dab (hip-hop dance move).

Related terms

• dabben

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ???? (??b). The expected form would be dieb, which exists dialectally. The imala was irregularly inverted as in some other verbs with -u- in the imperfect.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da?p/

Verb

dab (imperfect jdub)

1. (intransitive) to melt (become liquid, especially through warmth)

Derived terms

• dewweb

White Hmong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da?/

Noun

dab

1. (evil) spirit, considered responsible for epileptic attacks among other things

Derived terms

• qaug dab peg

References

• Ernest E. Heimbach, White Hmong - English Dictionary (1979, SEAP Publications)

Yola

Alternative forms

• dap

Etymology

From Middle English dabben.

Verb

dab

1. dash, slap

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN