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See also: bộ ba and боба

English

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Etymology

From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 波霸 (bōbà), from Cantonese 波霸 (bo1 baa3, “large breasts, tapioca pearls”), from 波 (bo1) transcribing English ball and 霸 (baa3, “chief, top”).

Pronunciation

Noun

boba (countable and uncountable, plural bobas)

  1. Synonym of tapioca pearl.
  2. Short for boba tea.

See also

References

Anagrams

Gagauz

Noun

boba

  1. father

Indonesian

boba

Etymology

From English boba, from the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 波霸 (bōbà), from Cantonese 波霸 (bo1 baa3, “large breasts, tapioca pearls”), from 波 (bo1) transcribing English ball and 霸 (baa3, “chief, top”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: bo‧ba

Noun

boba (plural boba-boba, first-person possessive bobaku, second-person possessive bobamu, third-person possessive bobanya)

  1. (cooking) boba
    1. tapioca pearl.
    2. boba tea.

Further reading

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Perhaps of Slavic origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.ba/
  • Rhymes: -ɔba
  • Hyphenation: bò‧ba

Noun

boba f (plural bobe)

  1. slime, slush
    Synonyms: melma, poltiglia
  2. pigswill, slop
    Synonyms: brodaglia, sbobba
  3. (figurative) verbose, nonsensical writing

Further reading

  • boba2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Japanese

Romanization

boba

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ぼば

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *bā́ˀbāˀ. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *baba (“old woman”).

Noun

bóba f stress pattern 1

  1. old woman
  2. woman
  3. wife

References

  • Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 32
  • “boba”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012

Livvi

Boba (1).
Boba (2).

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

boba

  1. toy
  2. flower

Declension

Declension of boba (Type 2/boba, b-v gradation)
singular plural
nominative boba bovat
genitive bovan boviin
partitive bobua bobii
illative bobah bobiih
inessive bovas boviis
elative bovaspäi boviispäi
allative bovale boviile
adessive boval boviil
ablative bovalpäi boviilpäi
translative bovakse boviikse
essive bovannu boviinnu
abessive bovattah boviittah
comitative bovanke boviinke
instructive boviin
prolative bovači

References

  • Tatjana Boiko (2019) “boba”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 26

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

Noun

boba

  1. genitive singular of bob
  2. nominative dual of bob
  3. accusative dual of bob

Portuguese

Adjective

boba

  1. feminine singular of bobo

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

boba (Cyrillic spelling боба)

  1. genitive singular of bob

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈboba/
  • Rhymes: -oba
  • Syllabification: bo‧ba

Etymology 1

See bobo.

Adjective

boba

  1. feminine singular of bobo

Noun

boba

  1. female equivalent of bobo

Etymology 2

boba (1)
boba (2)

Borrowed from English boba, ultimately from Cantonese 波霸 (bo1 baa3, “large breasts, tapioca pearls”).

Noun

boba m (plural bobas)

  1. Synonym of perlas de tapioca
  2. Short for té de boba.
    ¿Podemos tomar otro boba?
    Can we have another boba?

Further reading

“boba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish boba.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈboba/,
  • Hyphenation: bo‧ba

Adjective

boba (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊ)

  1. feminine of bobo: stupid; dumb
    • 2020, Jan Milo Severo, “'It's so fake': Vivian Velez goes viral for comparing Robredo's look to Miss Tapia”, in The Philippine Star‎:
      "Obviously, they want to make her look smarter (kasi nga boba) with those glasses on and books on the table, not to mention the color choice of her outfit. Ano 'to, shooting? Playing 'the president' daw sya?" she added.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Noun

boba (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊ)

  1. female equivalent of bobo: stupid woman; foolish woman

West Makian

Pronunciation

Verb

boba

  1. (stative) to call, summon
    boba ti baba ― call your father

Conjugation

Conjugation of boba (stative verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person tiboba miboba aboba
2nd person niboba fiboba
3rd person inanimate iboba diboba
animate maboba
imperative —, boba —, boba

Alternative forms

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics
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