babai

See also: babái and baba'i

Abenlen Ayta

Etymology

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

Noun

babai

1. woman

References

• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈbai/, [bäˈbäj]

Noun

babai

1. definite nominative singular of baba

Batad Ifugao

Etymology

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

Noun

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

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

Central Bontoc

Alternative forms

• fafái

Etymology

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

Noun

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

Verb

babai

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

Ilocano

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

babái

1. female

Noun

babái (plural babbai)

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

Derived terms

• babaien
• binabai

Iranun

Noun

babai

1. woman

Kankanaey

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈbaʔi/ [bʌˈbaː.ʔi̞]
• Rhymes: -aʔi
• Syllabification: ba‧ba‧i

Noun

babái (plural babbai)

1. woman

   lalaki ya babai : man and woman

References

• 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

Alternative forms

• babay (obsolete, Spanish orthography)
• babayi

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

• binabai
• kababai
• mababai
• magbabai
• pababai

Noun

bábái

1. women

References

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

Limos Kalinga

Etymology

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

Noun

babai

1. woman; female

Portuguese

Verb

babai

1. second-person plural imperative of babar

Tausug

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /babaʔi/ [ba.βaˈʔi]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: ba‧ba‧i

Noun

babai (Sulat Sūg spelling بَبَئِ)

1. woman

References

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