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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;
- 1993, Karen Dubinsky, Improper Advances: Rape and Heterosexual Conflict in Ontario, 1880-1929, University of Chicago Press
- 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.
- 2003, Food Tourism Around The World: Development, Management and Markets, edited by Colin Michael Hall and Liz Sharples
- (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?"
- 1998, Mulan (movie)
- (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.
- 2004, House (TV, episode 1.14)
Related terms
- baba au rhum
- rhumbaba, rum baba
- baba ganoush
- babushka
Translations
Further reading
- baba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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
Further reading
- “baba” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
- “baba” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
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
Further reading
- baba in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
- baba in Akademický slovník sou?asné ?eštiny, 2012-, slovnikcestiny.cz
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
Further reading
- “baba” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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
Further reading
- baba in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
- baba in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)
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
See also
- (thy) thoguo; (his/her) ithe
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
Further reading
- baba in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
- baba in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.
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
Further reading
- baba in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- baba in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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
See also
- babar-se
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
Further reading
- baba in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *baba.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bà?ba/
Noun
bába f
- old woman, hag
Inflection
Derived terms
- bábica
Further reading
- “baba”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
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
See also
- cieno
- lama
Further reading
- “baba” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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
- low
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
Further reading
- baba in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
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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caba
English
Noun
caba (plural cabas)
- (dated) A cabas, or lady's bag.
Anagrams
- A.C.A.B., AABC, AACB, ABAC, ABCA, ACAB, BCAA, Baca, abac
Turkish
Noun
caba (definite accusative cabay?, plural cabalar)
- free
Declension
References
- caba in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
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