See also: Babe, babë, babę, and Ba Bể

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English babe, a variant of earlier baban, perhaps from Old English *baba (boy, child), from Proto-Germanic *babô, reduplicated variant of *ba-, *bō- (father, brother, close male relation).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /beɪb/, enPR: bāb
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪb

NounEdit

babe (plural babes)

  1. (literary or poetic) A baby or infant; a very young human or animal. [from 14th c.]
    These events came to pass when he was but a babe.
  2. (slang) An attractive person, especially a young woman. [from 20th c.]
    • 2002, Charles Hebbert, Dan Richardson, The Rough Guide to Budapest, 2nd edition, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 73:
      During the 1980s, its vivid streetlife became a symbol of the “consumer socialism” that distinguished Hungary from other Eastern Bloc states, but Budapesters today are rather less enamoured of Váci: dressed-to-kill babes and their sugar daddies would rather pose in malls, and teenagers can find McDonald's anywhere, leaving Váci utterly dependent on tourists for its livelihood and bustle.
    She's a real babe!
  3. (endearing) Darling (term of endearment).
    Hey, babe, how's about you and me getting together?
    • 1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post[1]:
      But, Babe, you don't have to meet 'em if you don't want to.

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ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Whitney, The Century dictionary and cylcopedia, babe.

AnagramsEdit

Middle EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old English *baba.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaːb(ə)/, /ˈbab(ə)/

NounEdit

babe (plural babes)

  1. baby, infant

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • English: babe, bab
  • Welsh: baban

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PortugueseEdit

PronunciationEdit

 

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -abi, (Portugal) -abɨ
  • Hyphenation: ba‧be

VerbEdit

babe

  1. inflection of babar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

RomanianEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

babe f pl

  1. plural of babă

Serbo-CroatianEdit

NounEdit

babe (Cyrillic spelling бабе)

  1. inflection of baba:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

SlovakEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

babe

  1. dative/locative singular of baba

SwaziEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Bantu *bààbá.

NounEdit

babé class 1a (plural bóbabé class 2a)

  1. my father

InflectionEdit

This noun needs an inflection-table template.