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Aramaic
Etymology
Compare Arabic بَاب (bāb).
Noun
בָּבָא • (bāḇā) m (plural בָּבַיָּא)
- gate, door, entrance
- section, clause
- chapter
References
- “bb”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
- Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press