Baba

From Malay Baba or baba.

Baba (plural Babas)

1. (Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia) A male Peranakan.

• Nyonya

From a Slavic language. Compare Polish baba (“grandmother”), Russian баба (baba, “grandma”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaːba]

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Baba f (genitive Baba, plural Babas)

1. (regional) grandma

   Synonyms: Oma, Großmutter

• “Baba” in Duden online

Baba (indeclinable, predicative only)

1. Alternative spelling of baba (“boss, rad, fly”)

• IPA^(key): /bàː.bá/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [bàː.bə́]

Bā̀ba m or f

1. a unisex given name

Baba

1. (Banawá) a unisex given name

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

Baba

1. Rōmaji transcription of ばば

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1618. Contraction of Barbara.

Baba f

1. a female given name

• Common in Latvia in the 17th and 18th century, but unused today.

• Baiba

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• Population Register of Latvia: Baba did not occur as only given name of anyone in Latvia on May 21, 2010.

Possibly ultimately derived from Classical Persian بابا (bâbâ) or Ashokan Prakrit *𑀩𑀸𑀩𑁆𑀩𑀓 (*bābbaka, “father”). Compare Hindi बाबा (bābā), Urdu بابا (bābā), Bengali বাবা (baba). See Baba (honorific).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaba/, [ˈba.ba]

Baba (Jawi spelling باب, plural Baba-Baba, informal 1st possessive Babaku, 2nd possessive Babamu, 3rd possessive Babanya)

1. A male Peranakan (mostly found in Malacca, who speak Baba Malay, and historically descend from colonial Straits-born Chinese)
2. A male descendant of Peranakans (Baba Nyonya)

• → English: Baba
• → Hokkien: 峇峇 (bâ-bâ / bā-bā)
  • → Cantonese: 峇峇 (baa¹ baa¹)
  • → Mandarin: 峇峇 (bābā)

• baba

• Baba Nyonya on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “Baba” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “باب baba”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, pages 72-73
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “baba”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 59

From baba, definite form of babă.

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Baba f

1. A village in Horea, Alba, Romania
2. A village in Coroieni, Maramureș, Romania