different between babe vs bibe

English

Etymology

From Middle English babe, a variant of earlier baban, perhaps from Old English *baba (“boy, child”), from Proto-Germanic *babô, reduplicated variant of *ba-, *b?- (“father, brother, close male relation”), related to Old Frisian bobba (“child”), Old High German Babo (a male forename), see boy. Otherwise, origin obscure. Compare mama, dada, papa. Welsh baban (“baby”), believed by Skeat to be a mutation of maban, a diminutive of mab ("son"), is probably rather a borrowing from English. Cognate also with English bub.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be?b/, enPR: b?b
• Rhymes: -e?b

Noun

babe (plural babes)

1. (literary or poetic) A baby or infant; a very young human or animal. [from 14th c.]

   These events came to pass when he was but a babe.

   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night

     Though he possess sweet babes and loving wife,

     A home of peace by loyal friendships cheered,

     And love them more than death or happy life,

2. (slang) An attractive person, especially a young woman. [from 20th c.]

   She's a real babe!

3. (endearing) Darling (term of endearment).

   Hey, babe, how's about you and me getting together?

Synonyms

• (infant): baby, child, infant
• (attractive person): looker; See Thesaurus:beautiful person
  • (woman): hottie, doll, fox; See: Thesaurus:beautiful woman
• (darling): darling, dear, love, sweetheart

Derived terms

• bikini babe
• babe in the woods
• babe magnet
• out of the mouths of babes

Translations

References

Anagrams

• abbe, abbé

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -abi

Verb

babe

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of babar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of babar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of babar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of babar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ba.be]

Noun

babe f pl

1. plural of bab?

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

babe (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. inflection of baba:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?babe]

Noun

babe

1. dative/locative singular of baba

Swazi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *bààbá.

Noun

babé 1a (plural bóbabé 2a)

1. my father

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish badhb, a variant of badhbh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?b/
• Rhymes: -a?b

Noun

bibe (plural bibes)

1. (Ireland, Newfoundland) A type of banshee whose cry indicates someone's impending death.
   • 1822, "All Hallow Eve in Ireland", in Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume IX, No XV, page 257:

     "... But when Jack lies on his low death-bed, with the clammy dews standing on his brow, the moaning bibe combing her yellow locks, and singing the death-wail at his casement, then will this, and all poor Delaney's other actions, appear to his darkening eye in their true colours."

   • 2006, Coralie Hughes Jensen, Lety's Gift:

     Sophie's face grew serious. "Not the bibe. She comes when we dies."

References

• "bibe" in Story et al. Dictionary of Newfoundland English Second Edition with supplement, (Toronto, 1990)

Interlingua

Verb

bibe

1. present of biber
2. imperative of biber

Irish

Alternative forms

• bib

Etymology

Borrowed from English bib.

Noun

bibe m (genitive singular bibe, nominative plural bibí)

1. bib; apron-top

   Synonym: sciúlán

Declension

Mutation

References

• "bibe" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “bibe” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “bibe” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Latin

Verb

bibe

1. second-person singular present active imperative of bib?

Masbatenyo

Noun

bibe

1. duckling

Portuguese

Noun

bibe m (plural bibes)

1. bib (item of clothing for babies)

   Synonym: babador

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• bibi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi.be/

Noun

bibe

1. duck

Related terms

• pato