bab
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bab (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
Verb edit
bab (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 edit
Haitian Creole edit
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Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bab
Derived terms edit
- bab kabrit (“goatee”)
- bab pou bab (“face to face”)
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
From a Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian bob, Slovak bôb, Russian боб (bob, “bean”), from Proto-Slavic *bobъ.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bab (usually uncountable, plural babok)
Declension edit
Inflection (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 edit
Further 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 edit
Etymology edit
From Malay bab, from Arabic بَاب (bāb).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bab (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 Indonesia, 2016.
Irish edit
Noun edit
bab m (genitive singular bab, nominative plural babanna)
- Alternative form of bob (“bob; fringe”)
Noun edit
bab m (genitive singular bab, nominative plural babanna)
- Alternative form of bob (“stump, target”)
Declension edit
Mutation edit
Irish 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 edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
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bab (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 edit
Noun edit
bab
Middle English edit
Noun edit
bab
- Alternative form of babe
Northern Kurdish edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
bab m
Palauan edit
Etymology edit
From Pre-Palauan *babo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babaw, from Proto-Austronesian *babaw.
Adjective edit
bab
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
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bab f
Rohingya edit
Alternative forms edit
- 𐴁𐴝𐴁𐴢 (bab) — Hanifi Rohingya script
Etymology edit
From Sanskrit वप्र (vapra). Cognate with Sylheti ꠛꠣꠙ (baf), Assamese বাপ (bap), Bengali বাপ (bap), Hindi बाप (bāp).
Noun edit
bab (Hanifi spelling 𐴁𐴝𐴁𐴢)
Romagnol edit
Etymology edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bab 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 edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin *babbus. Compare Sardinian babbu.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bab m (plural babs)
Coordinate terms edit
See also edit
- pader (term to address a priest or monk)
Scots edit
Etymology 1 edit
Compare bob, likely cognate of English bob, from Middle English bobben (“to strike, to shake”).
Verb edit
bab (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 edit
From older Scots bob; compare Middle English bobbe (“cluster of fruit; spray of leaves”).
Noun edit
bab (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 edit
From Northern Middle English bab, a variant of babe.
Noun edit
bab (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 edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bab 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 edit
Mutation edit
Scottish 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 edit
Welsh edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bab
- Soft mutation of pab.
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
pab | bab | mhab | phab |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Zazaki edit
Noun edit
bab (m)
- father (sort form)