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baba

Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːbɑː/

The English word “baba” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.
  2. A grandmother.
  3. An old woman, especially a traditional old woman from an Eastern European culture.
  4. A father.
  5. A holy man, a spiritual leader.
  6. A baby, child.
  7. In baby talk, often used for a variety of words beginning with b, such as bottle or blanket.

Etymology

As one of the first utterances many babies are able to say, baba (like mama, papa, and dada) has come to be used in many languages as a term for various family members: * father: Albanian, Arabic, Western Armenian, Chinese, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Greek, Marathi, Marshallese, Mingrelian, Nepali, Persian, Swahili, Turkish, Yoruba, Shona, Zulu * grandmother: many Slavic languages (such as…

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