babba

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Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /babˈba/,
  • Hyphenation: bab‧ba

Noun

babbá m 

  1. dad

References

  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Faroese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *bō-. Compare Saterland Frisian Baabe (“father, dad”).

Noun

babba m (genitive singular babba, plural babba)

  1. (familiar) dad, daddy
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Verb

babba (third person singular past indicative babbaði, third person plural past indicative babbaðu, supine babbað)

  1. to kid
Conjugation
Conjugation of babba (group v-30)
infinitive babba
supine babbað
participle (a6)1 babbandi babbaður
present past
first singular babbi babbaði
second singular babbar babbaði
third singular babbar babbaði
plural babba babbaðu
imperative
singular babba!
plural babbið!
1Only the past participle being declined.
Synonyms

Hausa

Etymology

Unknown. The suppletive plural may have once been the singular, and has plentiful cognates within Chadic, e.g. Kanakuru manjò (“old”, singular).

Pronunciation

Adjective

bàbba (feminine bàbba, plural mânyā)

  1. big, large
    Antonyms: ƙanƙane, ƙarami
  2. great, important
  3. adult

References

  1. ^ Newman, Paul (2000) The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar (Yale language series), Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 24

Hungarian

Etymology

bab +‎ -ba

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: bab‧ba

Noun

babba

  1. illative singular of bab

Nyunga

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Adjective

babba

  1. bad, foolish, childish, weak

References

Sicilian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbabba/
  • Hyphenation: bab‧ba

Etymology 1

From Latin babbìus (“fool”).

Noun

babba f (plural babbi)

  1. fool, silly, stupid

Etymology 2

From Latin barba (“beard”).

Noun

babba m or f (plural babbi)

  1. (anatomy) beard
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