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bab
English
Etymology
Clipping of babby (“babber”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bæb/
Noun
bab (plural babs)
- (Britain, informal) Baby
- (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)
- (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
- 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)
- 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)
- chapter
- door, gate
- Synonyms: gapura, pintu
- 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)
- Alternative form of bob (“bob; fringe”)
Noun 2
bab m (genitive singular bab, nominative plural babanna)
- 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)
- 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
- father or paternal uncle
Northern Kurdish
Alternative forms
- bav
Noun
bab m
- father
Palauan
Etymology
From Pre-Palauan *babo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babaw, from Proto-Austronesian *babaw.
Adjective
bab
- above, top
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bap/
Noun
bab f
- 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 ????????????????)
- 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)
- (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)
- synonym of bob (“to move up and down”)
- to dance, to hop
Etymology 2
From older Scots bob; compare Middle English bobbe (“cluster of fruit; spray of leaves”).
Noun
bab (plural babs)
- nosegay, a bunch of flowers; a tassel, a bunch of ribbons
- (in compounds) something fine, something decorated
- a lump, dollop
- (figuratively) a lumpish person, an idiot
Etymology 3
From Northern Middle English bab, a variant of babe
Noun
bab (plural babs)
- (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
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Noun
bab m (genitive singular baba, plural baban or babannan)
- tuft, tassel
- child's excrement (hence abab)
- 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)
- father (sort form)
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sab
English
Etymology
Short for sabotage.
Verb
sab (third-person singular simple present sabs, present participle sabbing, simple past and past participle sabbed)
- (informal) To sabotage, especially fox hunts in opposition to blood sports.
Noun
sab (plural sabs)
- (informal) A saboteur, especially of fox hunts.
Anagrams
- ABS, ABs, Abs, B. A. S., B.A.S., B.A.s, BAS, BAs, BSA, SBA, abs, abs-, abs., bas
Catalan
Verb
sab
- Obsolete form of sap.
Cornish
Noun
sab f (singulative saben)
- pines
Synonyms
- pin
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French sable (“sand”)
Noun
sab
- sand
Maltese
Etymology
From Arabic ???????? (?a??ba). Compare Moroccan Arabic ???? (??b).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa?p/
Verb
sab (imperfect jsib, past participle misjub)
- to find
- to find (something) useful
- to catch
- to look for
- to find out, to realise
Conjugation
Scots
Noun
sab (plural sabs)
- sob
Verb
sab
- sob
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