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baba

English

Etymology

As one of the first utterances many babies are able to say, baba (like mama, papa, and dada) has come to be used in many languages as a term for various family members:

father: Megrelian, Albanian, Arabic, Western Armenian, Chinese, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Greek, Marathi, Nepali, Persian, Swahili, Turkish, Yoruba, Shona, Zulu
grandmother: many Slavic languages (such as Bulgarian, Russian, Czech and Polish), Romanian, Yiddish, Japanese
grandfather: Azerbaijani, Zulu (father, grandfather)
baby: Afrikaans, Sinhala, Hungarian

These terms often continue to be used by English speakers whose families came from one of these cultures. In some cases, they may become more widely used in localities that have been heavily influenced by an immigrant community. Some senses were extensions of one of these family terms in the original languages ("old woman" from "grandmother", "holy man" from "father"). The "cake" sense comes through French, from Polish baba (“old woman”). The Middle Eastern word baba (as in Ali Baba) is rather a term of endearment, and is ultimately derived from Persian ? (b?b?, “father”) (from Old Persian p?pa; as opposed to the Arabic words ?????? (?ab?) and ???? (?ab); see also Papak), and is linguistically related to the common European word papa and the word pope, having the same Indo-European origin. The Chinese word "baba", meaning father comes from ??.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (variously) /?b??b??/, /?b??b?/, /?bæb?/

Noun

baba (plural babas)

A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.
(esp. among people of East European ancestry) A grandmother.
- 1993, Karen Dubinsky, Improper Advances: Rape and Heterosexual Conflict in Ontario, 1880-1929, University of Chicago Press
  My baba, Ksenia Dubinsky, tells me that my education makes her proud.
- 2001, Brattleboro Remembers, edited by the Brattleboro [Vermont] Historical Society, Arcadia Publishing
  I walked first for my grandmother, and my mother was sorry she had missed my first steps. My Baba was so proud, my mother later told me.
- 2004, A Woman's Europe: True Stories, edited by MaryBeth Bond
  As we made eye contact, I slowly began to wonder if she was Baba. I did not know my grandmother though I'd spoken with her several times on the telephone;
An old woman, especially a traditional old woman from an eastern European culture.
- 2003, Food Tourism Around The World: Development, Management and Markets, edited by Colin Michael Hall and Liz Sharples
  According to some, new volunteers are becoming more difficult to recruit and there are dark suggestions that 'money is being made on the backs of the babas', the dedicated, but ageing ladies who still spend countless hours of their time preparing foodstuffs for the occasion.
(esp. among people of Indian ancestry) A father.
- 1998, Mulan (movie)
  "The greatest gift and honor is having you for a daughter. I've missed you so." "I've missed you too, baba."
- 2002, Bend It Like Beckham (movie)
  Okay. Okay. Fine, baba. Let's just do it before something else goes wrong.
- 2003, House of Sand and Fog (movie)
  "Do not be disrespectful, son. Look at me." "Baba, were you a Savaki?"
(Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism) A holy man, a spiritual leader.
(British India) A baby, child.
In baby talk, often used for a variety of words beginning with b, such as bottle or blanket.
- 2004, House (TV, episode 1.14)
  Oh, it's storytime! Let me get my baba.

Related terms

baba au rhum
rhumbaba, rum baba
baba ganoush
babushka

Translations

Anagrams

AABB, Abba, abba

Afrikaans

Noun

baba (plural babas)

baby

Related terms

babetjie

Verb

baba (present baba, present participle babaende, past participle gebaba)

to treat with gentle care, to coddle

Albanian

Alternative forms

babai

Etymology

Definite form of babë (“dad, daddy, father”). From Proto-Albanian *baba, from Proto-Indo-European *baba (“barbaric speech”). See babë (“dad, daddy, father”) for more.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [baba] (Tosk)
IPA^(key): [b?ba] (Gheg)

Noun

baba m (definite singular baba, definite plural babët, baballarët)

the dad, the daddy
(usually childish) the father
(usually childish) the grandpa

Synonyms

atë (“father”)
babai (“dad, daddy”)

Derived terms

Baba Dimri

Atong (India)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /baba/

Noun

baba (Bengali script ????)

father
paternal uncle
son

Synonyms

(father):

awa
wa•

References

van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [b??b?]
Hyphenation: ba?ba

Noun

baba (definite accusative baban?, plural babalar)

grandfather

Declension

Antonyms

(with regard to gender) n?n? (grandmother)
(with regard to ancestry) n?v? (grandchild)

Basque

Etymology

From Proto-Basque, ultimately from Latin faba.

Pronunciation

(standard) IPA^(key): /ba.ba/

Noun

baba inan

broad bean
bean, green bean
Synonym: babarrun
blister

Declension

Derived terms

Bikol Central

Etymology

From padaba (“loved one”) (term of endearment).

Noun

baba (babà) (Bikol Legazpi)

loved one

Verb

baba

to piggyback; to carry someone on the back

Cebuano

Etymology 1

First attested in Antonio Pigafetta's Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo—detailing the first circumnavigation of the world between 1519 and 1522.

Pronunciation

(General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /ba?ba?/
Rhymes: -a?
Hyphenation: ba?ba

Noun

baba

the mouth
the mouth of a river
an outlet, aperture or orifice
talk; empty boasting, promises or claims

Verb

baba

to hit, be hit or injured in the mouth

Etymology 2

Compare abaga.

Pronunciation

(General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /?baba/
Rhymes: -a
Hyphenation: ba?ba

Verb

baba

to piggyback; to carry someone on the back

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:baba.

Derived terms

baba sa atay
babaan
babaon
sa baba sa buaya

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

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

Noun

baba

father
dad

Declension

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *baba.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /baba/
Rhymes: -aba

Noun

baba f

crone, hag
coward, milksop
Synonym: ? zbab?lec
(informal) girl, chick

Declension

Related terms

Dagbani

Etymology

Unknown.

Noun

baba (plural babanima)

Title of the second chief butcher

Noun

baba

plural of babli (a featherless fowl)

Noun

baba

Father

Ewe

Noun

baba

termite, white ant

References

Fanagalo

Etymology

From Zulu ubaba, from Proto-Bantu *bààbá.

Noun

baba

father

Finnish

Etymology

From Polish baba, probably via French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?b?b?/, [?b?b?]
Rhymes: -?b?
Syllabification: ba?ba

Noun

baba

baba, babka (type of cake)

Declension

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ba.ba/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Polish baba, introduced in France in the eighteenth century at the court of Stanis?aw Leszczy?ski, king of Poland, duke of Lorraine and father-in-law of Louis XV.

Noun

baba m (plural babas)

baba (type of cake)

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Adjective

baba (plural babas)

(colloquial) flabbergasted

Galician

Etymology

Attested since the 18th century. From the hypothesized Vulgar Latin *baba, ultimately imitative of children speech on the pattern of the repeated syllable ba.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [?ba??]

Noun

baba f (plural babas)

drool
Synonym: baballa
slime (mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals)
Synonym: baballa

Derived terms

baballa
babar
babexar

References

“baba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
“baba” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“baba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Garo

Etymology

Likely from Bengali ???? (baba)

Noun

baba

father

Synonyms

paa
pagipa
apa

German

Etymology

A link of the term with the English bye-bye is possible but not certain.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -a?

Interjection

baba

(informal, chiefly in Austria) see you, so long

Usage notes

In Austria, especially East Austria, baba is the most commonly used informal term for saying "goodbye".

Hausa

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “all etys”)

Etymology 1

Noun

b??ba m (possessed form b??ban)

father
Used as a term of address for a man of appropriate age to be one's father, or who shares one's father's name.

Etymology 2

Noun

b??b? m (plural b??bànni, possessed form b??ban)

eunuch
impotent man

Etymology 3

Probably an early borrowing from Kanuri báwà (“paternal aunt”).

Noun

b?bà f (possessed form b?bàr?)

paternal aunt

References

Hausa vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Etymology 4

Noun

b?b? m (possessed form b?ban)

indigo (the plant, or the dye from it)

Hiligaynon

Noun

bába or bâbâ

mouth

Hungarian

Etymology

An onomatopoeia. It may be a doublet of báb.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [?b?b?]
Hyphenation: ba?ba
Rhymes: -b?

Noun

baba (plural babák)

doll (toy in the form of a human)
baby, infant (very young human child, particularly from birth until walking is mastered)
Synonyms: csecsem?, kisbaba, bébi
(in the possessive, folk songs) baby, darling (term of endearment for a girlfriend, or less often, a boyfriend)
Synonyms: kedves, (also in the possessive) pár

Declension

Derived terms

Adjective

baba (comparative babább, superlative legbabább)

(slang) swell, neat (exceptionally good, pleasing or enjoyable)

Declension

References

Ilocano

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babaq

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: ba?ba
IPA^(key): /ba?ba/, [b??ba]

Adverb

babá

below

Derived terms

Japanese

Romanization

baba

R?maji transcription of ??

Kabyle

Noun

baba m

father

Kikuyu

Alternative forms

baaba

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?à????/

The first a is pronounced long.

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 6 with a disyllabic stem, together with m?gwac?, nyam?, and so on.

(Kiambu)

(Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including guka, g?t?, m?gu?, m?twe, nyam?, ruo, r?h? (pl. h?), r?k? (pl. ng?), taata (“my aunt”), ?ta (pl. mota), ?thi? (pl. mothi?), and so on.

(Ndia) The same underlying pattern as that of r?h? and mothi?.
(Nyeri) The same underlying pattern as that of mothi? and ruo.

Noun

baba 1

my father, dad

References

Latgalian

Etymology

Borrowed from a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *baba. Doublet of buoba

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?baba/
Hyphenation: ba?ba

Noun

baba f (diminutive babe?a)

grandmother

Declension

Synonyms

(dialectal) vace

Coordinate terms

dzeds (“grandfather”)

References

A. Andronov; L. Leikuma (2008) Latgal?šu-Latv?šu-Kr?vu sarunu vuordineica, Lvava, ?ISBN, page 10

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *baba.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?baba/

Noun

baba f (diminutive babka)

midwife
old woman
woman
sponge cake

Declension

Luo

Noun

baba

father

Malay

Etymology

Voiced bapa.

Pronunciation

(Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /bab?/
(Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /baba/
Rhymes: -ab?, -b?, -?
Rhymes: -?

Noun

baba (plural baba-baba, informal 1st possessive babaku, impolite 2nd possessive babamu, 3rd possessive babanya)

father (male parent)

Synonyms

bapa (bapanda, bapai, bapak, bapang, papa)
ayah (ayahanda, aya, yah)
abah (aba, bah)
rama

Descendants

? Chinese: ??

References

Marshallese

Pronunciation

(phonetic) IPA^(key): [p???b??], (enunciated) [p?? p??]
(phonemic) IPA^(key): /p?æ?p?æ?/
Bender phonemes: {bahbah}

Noun

baba

father
daddy

References

Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Matal

Noun

baba

father

Mwani

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *bààbá.

Alternative forms

wawa

Noun

baba 1a (plural wababa)

father

Ngarluma

Noun

baba

water
rain, rainwater

References

Aboriginal Languages of the Pilbara: Ngarluma (1990); HG

Phuthi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bába.

Verb

-baba

to taste bitter

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?ba.ba/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *baba, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *b???b??. From nursery language.

Noun

baba f (diminutive babka or babcia, augmentative babsko or babisko)

(colloquial) woman
(colloquial) wife, girlfriend
babka, a type of cake
Synonym: babka
crone, hag
(obsolete) grandmother
Synonym: babcia

Declension

References

Brückner, Aleksander (1927) S?ownik etymologiczny j?zyka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, published 1985

Related terms

(verb) babie?
(nouns) babcia f, babiniec m, babka f, babon m, babsztyl m, babunia f
(adjectives) babi, babski

Etymology 2

From Persian ?.

Noun

baba m pers

(Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism) baba (a holy man, a spiritual leader)

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From the hypothesized Vulgar Latin *baba, ultimately imitative of children speech on the pattern of the repeated syllable ba.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?ba.b?/
Rhymes: -aba

Noun

baba f (plural babas)

drool, dribble

Verb

baba

third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of babar
second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of babar

Ratagnon

Noun

baba

mouth

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [?ba.ba]

Noun

baba

definite singular of bab?

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *baba.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bâba/
Hyphenation: ba?ba

Noun

b?ba f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

(regional) grandmother
granny, grandma
(usually derogatory) old woman, hag
(derogatory) female person

Declension

Synonyms

(grandmother; grandma): báka, nena

References

“baba” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Shona

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *bààbá.

Noun

babá 1a (plural vababá 2)

father
(Christianity) father (priest)
Synonym: fata

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *baba.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?baba/

Noun

baba f (genitive singular baby, nominative plural baby, genitive plural báb, declension pattern of žena)

(colloquial) old woman
(colloquial) girl
(dated) midwife
(dated) doll
(dated) puppet
(dated) hash brown zemiaková baba, now zemiaková placka

Declension

Derived terms

babský (adj)
babsky (adverb)
babisko

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *baba.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bà?ba/

Noun

bába f

old woman, hag

Inflection

Derived terms

bábica

Southern Ndebele

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bába.

Verb

-bába

to be bitter

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Spanish

Etymology

From the hypothesized Vulgar Latin *baba (“drooling, infantile talk”), ultimately imitative of children speech on the pattern of the repeated syllable ba.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?baba/, [?ba.??a]

Noun

baba f (plural babas)

drool, dribble
slime
(Venezuela) baby alligator, caiman or crocodile

Related terms

Swahili

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *bààbá.

Pronunciation

Noun

baba (n class, plural baba)

father (male parent)

Coordinate terms

mama

Derived terms

ubaba

Swazi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bába.

Verb

-bába

(intransitive) to taste bitter

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Tagalog

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babaq, from Proto-Austronesian *babaq.

Adverb

babà

Noun

babà

(anatomy) chin

Verb

babâ

to descend

Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baba, from Proto-Austronesian *baba.

Verb

baba

to piggyback

Ternate

Noun

baba

father

References

Rika Hayami-Allen (2001). A Descriptive Study of the Language of Ternate, the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia. University of Pittsburgh.

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ?????, from Middle Persian [Term?].

Cognate withKazakh ???? (baba),Bashkir ???? (baba),Uzbek bobo,Uyghur ????? (baba), ????? (bowa),Turkmen baba,Azerbaijani baba (“grandfather”), etc.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /b??b?/
Hyphenation: ba?ba

Noun

baba (definite accusative babay?, plural babalar)

father
Saint (as in Gül Baba)

Declension

Derived terms

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *baba.

Noun

baba f

old woman, grandmother
midwife
dough, pastry
pelican (bird)

Venda

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *bààbá.

Noun

baba

father

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Noun

bàbá or baba

father

Coordinate terms

mama

Noun

baba

Old or elderly man of wisdom

Etymology 2

Noun

bàbà

copper (chemical element, Cu, atomical number 29)

Etymology 3

From English barber.

Noun

bábà

barber

Zulu

Etymology 1

From Proto-Bantu *-bába.

Verb

-bába

(intransitive) to taste hot, spicy
(intransitive) to taste bitter

Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

baba

simple singular of ubaba

References

C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “?a?a”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “?a?a (3.9) v.”
C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “?a?a”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “?a?a (3-5.4) voc. interj.”

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basa

English

Etymology

From Vietnamese ba sa

Noun

basa (plural basa)

The catfish Pangasius bocourti.

Anagrams

AABs, BSAA, SABA, Saab, Saba, abas, baas, saba, à bas

Asturian

Verb

basa

inflection of basar:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

Catalan

Noun

basa f (plural bases)

(card games) trick

Verb

basa

inflection of basar:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

Cebuano

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)bas?q.

Adjective

basa

wet (of an object: covered with or impregnated with liquid)

Verb

basa

To wet; to cover or impregnate with liquid.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Malay baca, from Sanskrit ???? (v?c?).

Verb

basa

To read.

Czech

Etymology

Borrowing from German Bass or French basse. The meaning “prison” was probably based on French au violon (“in prison”, literally “in violin”). The meaning “bottle crate” was probably derived from that, with the bottles being confined in the crate.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /basa/
Rhymes: -asa

Noun

basa f

(music) bass (musical instrument)
(informal) bottle crate (a crate used to transport bottles)
(informal, expressive) prison (a place of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes)

Declension

Synonyms

(crate): p?epravka f
(prison): v?zení n, žalá? m, katr m

Derived terms

basák
basista
baskytara
basový
kontrabas

References

French

Verb

basa

third-person singular past historic of baser

Anagrams

à bas

Hiligaynon

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)bas?q.

Adjective

basâ (diminutive basâ-basâ)

damp, soaked, wet

Verb

basâ (diminutive basâ-basâ)

to drench, to wet

Verb

bása (diminutive basá-bása)

to read

Hungarian

Alternative forms

pasa

Etymology

Borrowing from Ottoman Turkish ???? (ba?, “head, chief, master”), from Proto-Turkic *ba?? (“head”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [?b???]
Hyphenation: ba?sa
Rhymes: -??

Noun

basa (plural basák)

pasha

Declension

Derived terms

basáskodik

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French bas, Italian basso and Spanish bajo, all from Late Latin bassus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?ba.sa/

Adjective

basa

Derived terms

basigar (“to make low, lower, shorten the height of”)

Ilocano

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)bas?q.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: ba?sá
IPA^(key): /ba?sa/, [b??sa]

Adjective

basá

wet (of an object: covered with or impregnated with liquid)

Noun

basá

soaking

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Sanskrit ???? (bh???, “speech, language”)

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: bá?sa
IPA^(key): /?basa/

Noun

bása

reading
study

Derived terms

Indonesian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [?ba.sa]
Hyphenation: ba?sa
Rhymes: -a

Etymology 1

From Dutch base, from French base, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek ????? (básis). Doublet of basis.

Noun

basa (first-person possessive basaku, second-person possessive basamu, third-person possessive basanya)

(chemistry) base, any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.
Synonym: alkali

Alternative forms

bes (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Etymology 2

Noun

basa (first-person possessive basaku, second-person possessive basamu, third-person possessive basanya)

Nonstandard form of bahasa (“language”).

Irish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [?b??s??], [?b?as??]

Noun

basa f

plural of bas

Mutation

Italian

Verb

basa

inflection of basare:
1. third-person singular present
2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

Saba

Jamamadí

Verb

basa

(Banawá) to put a stick up high

References

2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Javanese

Alternative forms

Carakan: ??

Etymology

From Old Javanese bh??a (“speech”), borrowed from Sanskrit ???? (bh???, “speech, language”)

Noun

basa (krama-ngoko basa)

speech
language
polite or krama register (in speech)

References

"basa" in Tim Balai Bahasa Yogyakarta, Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa). Kanisius, Yogyakarta

Kapampangan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)bas?q.

Adjective

basa

wet (of an object: covered with or impregnated with liquid)

Ladin

Noun

basa m (plural [please provide])

base

Lindu

Noun

basa

word

Manchu

Romanization

basa

Romanization of ????

Maranao

Etymology

Borrowing from Sanskrit ???? (bh???, “speech, language”)

Noun

basa

language

Derived terms

kabasa

Old Irish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?basa/

Verb

basa

first/second-person singular preterite/imperfect indicative of is

Mutation

Phuthi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bàkia.

Verb

-basa

to light, to kindle

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Spanish

Verb

basa

Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of basar.
Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of basar.
Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of basar.

Sundanese

Romanization

basa

Romanization of ??

Swazi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bàkia.

Verb

-basa

to light, to kindle

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Swedish

Etymology

From bas (leader of the daily, actual work) + -a to construct the verb.

Verb

basa (present basar, preterite basade, supine basat, imperative basa)

(dated) to lead, and direct, the daily work

Conjugation

Tagalog

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)bas?q.

Adjective

basa

wet (of an object: covered with or impregnated with liquid)

Verb

basa

to make wet (unintentionally)

Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Old Tagalog ?? (basa), from Sanskrit ???? (v?c?).

Verb

basa

to read; to let someone read; to read for someone

Conjugation

Venetian

Adjective

basa

feminine singular of baso

Westrobothnian

Verb

basa

(transitive) To whip, thrash.

Verb

basa

To heat (planks) with steam, to make soft, pliant.

Verb

basa

To run, rush.
let ä basa
let it go

Xhosa

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bàkia.

Verb

-basa

(transitive) to light, to kindle

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Zulu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bàkia.

Verb

-basa

(transitive) to light, to kindle
(transitive) to stir up, to enflame (trouble)
(transitive) to strike hard

Inflection

References

C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “?asa”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “?asa (7.4)”

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English

Etymology

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Noun

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Afrikaans

Noun

Related terms

Verb

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

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Atong (India)

Pronunciation

Noun

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Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Antonyms

Basque

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

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Further reading

Bikol Central

Etymology

Noun

Verb

Cebuano

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

Verb

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Verb

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Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Noun

Declension

Czech

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

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Further reading

Dagbani

Etymology

Noun

Noun

Noun

Ewe

Noun

References

Fanagalo

Etymology

Noun

Finnish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

French