Wiktionary

babai

See also: babái and baba'i

Abenlen Ayta edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman, female”).

Noun edit

babai

  1. woman

References edit

  • Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

Albanian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /baˈbai/, [bäˈbäj]

Noun edit

babai

  1. definite nominative singular of baba

Batad Ifugao edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman, female”).

Noun edit

babāi

  1. woman
    • 2005, Manuel B. Dulawan, Oral Literature of the Ifugao, page 64:
      Mabigat ya nakammodwong nan' babai.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References edit

  • ABVD
  • Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (as ba-bāi)

Central Bontoc edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman, female”).

Noun edit

babái

  1. woman, girl
    • 1970, Lawrence Andrew Reid, Central Bontoc: Sentence, Paragraph, and Discourse, SIL:
      Kanan nan aman nan babai en, ...
      said the father the girl quote, ...
      The father of the girl said, ...
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Galician edit

Verb edit

babai

  1. (reintegrationist norm) second-person plural imperative of babar

Ilocano edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from *bahi (“woman; female”).

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: ba‧ba‧i
  • IPA(key): /baˈbaʔi/, [bɐˈbaʔi]

Adjective edit

babái

  1. female

Noun edit

babái (plural babbai)

  1. woman; female; girl
  2. concubine; mistress

Derived terms edit

Iranun edit

Pronunciation edit

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Noun edit

babai

  1. woman

Kankanaey edit

Alternative forms edit

  • babae (used by Atayoc, Guerzon and Tatpiec's 1976 Phrase Book for Central Kankanaey)

Etymology edit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman, female”).

Noun edit

babái

  1. woman
    lalaki ya babai : man and woman

References edit

  • Janet L. Allen, A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis of Kankanaey (2011)
  • Din nanlogian di am-in (Kankanaey translation of the Biblical book of Genesis)

Kapampangan edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman, female”).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /bəˈbai/, [bəˈbäː.i] (noun:woman)
  • IPA(key): /ˌbaˈbai/, [ˌbäːˈbäː.i] (noun:women)
  • Hyphenation: ba‧ba‧i

Noun edit

babái

  1. woman
    malagung babai
    beautiful woman
    • 2005, Current Issues in Philippine Linguistics and Anthropology, page 340:
      (3) [Kapampangan]4
      a. Malagu ya ing babai.
      beautiful ABS.3SG DET.ABS.SG woman
      'The woman is beautiful.'
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. sister

Derived terms edit

Noun edit

bábái

  1. women

References edit

  • Leatrice T. Mirikitani, Speaking Kapampangan (1971) (sister)
  • Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (woman)

Limos Kalinga edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman, female”).

Noun edit

babai

  1. woman; female

Portuguese edit

Verb edit

babai

  1. second-person plural imperative of babar

Tausug edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi

Noun edit

babai

  1. woman

References edit

  • Carl R. Galvez Rubino, Intensive Tausug: A Pedagogical Grammar (2006)
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