babai
Abenlen AytaEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman, female”).
NounEdit
babai
ReferencesEdit
- Austronesian Comparative Dictionary
Batad IfugaoEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman, female”).
NounEdit
babāi
- woman
- 2005, Manuel B. Dulawan Oral Literature of the Ifugao, page 64:
- Mabigat ya nakammodwong nan' babai.
- 2005, Manuel B. Dulawan Oral Literature of the Ifugao, page 64:
ReferencesEdit
- ABVD
- Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (as ba-bāi)
Central BontocEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman, female”).
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
babái
- 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, ...
- 1970, Lawrence Andrew Reid, Central Bontoc: Sentence, Paragraph, and Discourse (SIL):
IlocanoEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from *bahi (“woman; female”).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
babái
NounEdit
babái (plural babbai)
Derived termsEdit
KankanaeyEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman, female”).
Alternative formsEdit
- babae (used by Atayoc, Guerzon and Tatpiec's 1976 Phrase Book for Central Kankanaey)
NounEdit
babái
- woman
- lalaki ya babai : man and woman
ReferencesEdit
- 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)
KapampanganEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman, female”).
NounEdit
babai (babái)
- 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.'
- malagung babai
- sister
ReferencesEdit
- Leatrice T. Mirikitani, Speaking Kapampangan (1971) (sister)
- Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (woman)
Limos KalingaEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman, female”).
NounEdit
babai
PortugueseEdit
VerbEdit
babai
TausugEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman, female”).
NounEdit
babai
ReferencesEdit
- Carl R. Galvez Rubino, Intensive Tausug: A Pedagogical Grammar (2006)