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English

Alternative forms

• babool

Etymology

Borrowed both from French baboul and from Hindi ???? (bab?l, “babul tree”), probably ultimately from Sanskrit ?????? (vavvola, “acacia”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??bu?l/

Noun

babul (plural babuls)

1. A tree native to South Asia, Vachellia nilotica subsp. indica, formerly Acacia nilotica subsp. indica.

Synonyms

• kikar, prickly acacia

References

• babul at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “babul, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2011
• Acacia nilotica subsp. indica on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Acacia nilotica subsp. indica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Acacia nilotica subsp. indica on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Vachellia+nilotica at The Plant List

Anagrams

• bubal

Volapük

Etymology

From a contraction of balsebalul ( = bals (“ten, now deg”) +? e (“and”) +? bal (“one”) +? -ul (“(bound morpheme for) month (< mul)”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ba.?bul]

Noun

babul (nominative plural babuls)

1. (obsolete) November (the eleventh (11th) month of the year)

Usage notes

• This older term has been replaced by novul (“November”).

Declension

Synonyms

• balsebalul (obsolete)
• degbalul (cf. parallel contractions: deg(balul) > degbul; balse(balul) > babul)
• novul

English

Alternative forms

• baboo (dated)

Etymology

From Hindi ???? (b?b?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??bu?/

Noun

babu (plural babus)

1. (India) A Hindu title of respect, equivalent to Mr., usually appended to the surname of a Hindu man [from 18th c.]
   • 1989, Amitav Ghosh, Shadow Lines:

     I could see Kana-babu’s sweet-shop at the end of their lane with absolute clarity.

2. (India) (Originally) a Hindu gentleman employed to work as a clerk for the colonial administration; now, a clerk or low-ranking government official. [from 19th c.]
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘His Chance in Life’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 57:

     The Babu put on his cap and quietly dropped out of the window

   • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 2 [1]

     Office babus are the real rulers of this country now. Our number's up. Best thing we can do is to shut up shop and let 'em stew in their own juice.

Derived terms

• babudom
• babuism

Indonesian

Noun

babu (first-person possessive babuku, second-person possessive babumu, third-person possessive babunya)

1. housemaid

See also

• jongo

Jarawa

Etymology

From Hindi ???? (b?b?). Cognate to Önge babu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /babu/

Noun

babu

1. official, officer (of the Indian government of the Andamans)

References

• Kumar, Pramod (2012). Descriptive and Typological Study of Jarawa (PhD). Jawaharlal Nehru University. Page 111, 141, 187.

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?babu]

Noun

babu

1. accusative/instrumental singular of baba

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

babu (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. accusative singular of baba

Shabo

Adjective

babu

1. two

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?babu]

Noun

babu

1. accusative singular of baba

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

babu (n class, plural babu)

1. grandfather (from either side)

Coordinate terms

• bibi

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *papu. The initial b- was introduced by analogy with Russian ??? (bob).

Noun

babu

1. bean

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “???”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Yindjibarndi

Noun

babu

1. father