different between darling vs bab

English

Alternative forms

• darlin' (informal)
• dearling

Etymology

From Middle English derelyng, from Old English d?orling (“darling, favorite, minion; also household god”), corresponding to dear +? -ling.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d??l??/
• (General American) enPR: där'l?ng, IPA^(key): /?d??l??/
• Homophone: Darling
• Rhymes: -??(r)l??

Noun

darling (plural darlings)

1. A person who is dear to one.
2. A kind or sweet person; sweetheart.

3. An affectionate term of address.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sweetheart
4. (by extension) A person or thing very popular with a certain group.

Derived terms

• darlinghood
• kill one's darlings
• media darling

Translations

Adjective

darling (comparative darlinger, superlative darlingest)

1. Dear; cherished.

2. charming

Usage notes

darlinger is rarely used.

Translations

Anagrams

• Lingard, larding

English

Etymology

Clipping of babby (“babber”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæb/

Noun

bab (plural babs)

1. (Britain, informal) Baby
2. (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)

1. (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

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. chapter
2. door, gate

   Synonyms: gapura, pintu

3. 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)

1. Alternative form of bob (“bob; fringe”)

Noun 2

bab m (genitive singular bab, nominative plural babanna)

1. 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)

1. 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

1. father or paternal uncle

Northern Kurdish

Alternative forms

• bav

Noun

bab m

1. father

Palauan

Etymology

From Pre-Palauan *babo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babaw, from Proto-Austronesian *babaw.

Adjective

bab

1. above, top

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bap/

Noun

bab f

1. 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 ????????????????)

1. 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)

1. (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)

1. synonym of bob (“to move up and down”)
2. to dance, to hop

Etymology 2

From older Scots bob; compare Middle English bobbe (“cluster of fruit; spray of leaves”).

Noun

bab (plural babs)

1. nosegay, a bunch of flowers; a tassel, a bunch of ribbons
2. (in compounds) something fine, something decorated

3. a lump, dollop
4. (figuratively) a lumpish person, an idiot

Etymology 3

From Northern Middle English bab, a variant of babe

Noun

bab (plural babs)

1. (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

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

Noun

bab m (genitive singular baba, plural baban or babannan)

1. tuft, tassel
2. child's excrement (hence abab)
3. 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)

1. father (sort form)