bab
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /bæb/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æb
Noun
editbab (plural babs)
- (UK, informal) Baby
- (fishing, East Anglia) A bait for eels, consisting of a bundle of live worms.
- 2006 February 1, John Meiklejohn, “Babbing for eels”, in BBC - WW2 People's War[1]:
- The worms were threaded onto the yarn until we had 4 or 5 feet of big juicy worms threaded through. We would coil it all up and put an old rusty nut at the centre and tie it on a bit of string on an old ash pole — this was the bab.
Synonyms
edit- (baby): see Thesaurus:baby
- (bait): clod
Derived terms
editVerb
editbab (third-person singular simple present babs, present participle babbing, simple past and past participle babbed)
- (intransitive, fishing, East Anglia) To fish for eels using a bab.
- 1884, George Christopher Davies, Norfolk Broads and Rivers, W. Blackwood and sons, page 244:
- The babbers follow the eels, and you may see fifteen boats as close together as possible, babbing away, and catching as much as four stone-weight of eels per boat of a night.
- 1948, William Guy, Mostly Memories: Some Digressions, C. J. Cousland, page 24:
- Sometimes we trolled or set liggers for pike, we seldom babbed for eels, it was such a slimy job.
- 2006 February 1, John Meiklejohn, “Babbing for eels”, in BBC - WW2 People's War[2]:
- Another classic example was babbing for eels; he would come along and say — ‘Goodnight for babbing, make you some babs’.
Anagrams
editHaitian Creole
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbab
Derived terms
edit- bab kabrit (“goatee”)
- bab pou bab (“face to face”)
Hungarian
editEtymology
editFrom a Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian bob, Slovak bôb, Russian боб (bob, “bean”), from Proto-Slavic *bobъ.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbab (usually uncountable, plural babok)
Declension
editInflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | bab | babok |
accusative | babot | babokat |
dative | babnak | baboknak |
instrumental | babbal | babokkal |
causal-final | babért | babokért |
translative | babbá | babokká |
terminative | babig | babokig |
essive-formal | babként | babokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | babban | babokban |
superessive | babon | babokon |
adessive | babnál | baboknál |
illative | babba | babokba |
sublative | babra | babokra |
allative | babhoz | babokhoz |
elative | babból | babokból |
delative | babról | babokról |
ablative | babtól | baboktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
babé | baboké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
babéi | babokéi |
Possessive forms of bab | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | babom | babjaim |
2nd person sing. | babod | babjaid |
3rd person sing. | babja | babjai |
1st person plural | babunk | babjaink |
2nd person plural | babotok | babjaitok |
3rd person plural | babjuk | babjaik |
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- bab in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- bab in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)
Indonesian
editEtymology
editFrom Malay bab, from Arabic بَاب (bāb).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbab (plural bab-bab, first-person possessive babku, second-person possessive babmu, third-person possessive babnya)
Further reading
edit- “bab” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Irish
editNoun
editbab m (genitive singular bab, nominative plural babanna)
- Alternative form of bob (“bob; fringe”)
Noun
editbab m (genitive singular bab, nominative plural babanna)
- Alternative form of bob (“stump, target”)
Declension
editMutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
bab | bhab | mbab |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bab”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Malay
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbab (Jawi spelling باب, plural bab-bab, informal 1st possessive babku, 2nd possessive babmu, 3rd possessive babnya)
- chapter (section in a book)
Further reading
edit- “bab” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Meriam
editNoun
editbab
Middle English
editNoun
editbab
- Alternative form of babe
Northern Kurdish
editAlternative forms
editNoun
editbab m
Palauan
editEtymology
editFrom Pre-Palauan *babo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babaw, from Proto-Austronesian *babaw.
Adjective
editbab
Polish
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbab f
Rohingya
editAlternative forms
edit- 𐴁𐴝𐴁𐴢 (bab) — Hanifi Rohingya script
Etymology
editFrom Sanskrit वप्र (vapra). Cognate with Sylheti ꠛꠣꠙ (baf), Assamese বাপ (bap), Bengali বাপ (bap), Hindi बाप (bāp).
Noun
editbab (Hanifi spelling 𐴁𐴝𐴁𐴢)
Romagnol
editEtymology
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbab m (plural bëb)
- Alternative form of ba
- 1920, Olindo Guerrini, edited by Zanichelli, Sonetti romagnoli, published 1967:
- Allora e' babb d' sta bela zuvintò
- And then the father of this beautiful youth
References
edit- Masotti, Adelmo (1996) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano [Romagnol-Italian dictionary] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, page 51
Romansch
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Late Latin *babbus. Compare Sardinian babbu.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbab m (plural babs)
Coordinate terms
editSee also
edit- pader (term to address a priest or monk)
Scots
editEtymology 1
editCompare bob, likely cognate of English bob, from Middle English bobben (“to strike, to shake”).
Verb
editbab (third-person singular simple present babs, present participle babbin, simple past bab'd, past participle bab'd)
- synonym of bob (“to move up and down”)
- to dance, to hop
- 1733, Allan Ramsay, “Christ’s Kirk on the Green”, in Poems by Allan Ramsay[3], page 52:
- The lasses bab’d about the reel / Gar’d a’ their hurdies wallop
- The girls danced around the ring / Making their bottoms gallop
Etymology 2
editFrom older Scots bob; compare Middle English bobbe (“cluster of fruit; spray of leaves”).
Noun
editbab (plural babs)
- nosegay, a bunch of flowers; a tassel, a bunch of ribbons
- (in compounds) something fine, something decorated
- wooer bab ― a garter tied below the knee
- a lump, dollop
- (figuratively) a lumpish person, an idiot
Etymology 3
editFrom Northern Middle English bab, a variant of babe.
Noun
editbab (plural babs)
References
edit- “bab, v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- “bobben v.1”, in Middle English Compendium, 2019 November
- “bab, n.1” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- “bob, n.1” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- “bob, n.1.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
- “bobbe”, in Middle English Compendium, 2019 November
- “bab, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
Scottish Gaelic
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbab m (genitive singular baba, plural baban or babannan)
- tuft, tassel
- child's excrement (hence abab)
- stain
- Bithidh sin 'n a bhab air fhad 's is beò e.
- That will be a stain on him as long as he lives.
Related terms
editMutation
editScottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
bab | bhab |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
editWelsh
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbab
- Soft mutation of pab.
Mutation
editZazaki
editNoun
editbab (m)
- father (sort form)
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