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boba

See also: bộ ba and боба

English

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Etymology

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From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 波霸 (bōbà), from Cantonese 波霸 (bo1 baa3, “large breasts, tapioca pearls”), from 波 (bo1) transcribing English ball and 霸 (baa3, “chief, top”).

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Noun

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boba (countable and uncountable, plural bobas)

  1. Synonym of tapioca pearl.
  2. Short for boba tea.

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Anagrams

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Gagauz

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Noun

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boba

  1. father

Indonesian

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boba

Etymology

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From English boba, from the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 波霸 (bōbà), from Cantonese 波霸 (bo1 baa3, “large breasts, tapioca pearls”), from 波 (bo1) transcribing English ball and 霸 (baa3, “chief, top”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈboba]
  • Hyphenation: bo‧ba

Noun

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boba (plural boba-boba, first-person possessive bobaku, second-person possessive bobamu, third-person possessive bobanya)

  1. (cooking) boba
    1. tapioca pearl.
    2. boba tea.

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Italian

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Etymology

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Perhaps of Slavic origin.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.ba/
  • Rhymes: -ɔba
  • Hyphenation: bò‧ba

Noun

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boba f (plural bobe)

  1. slime, slush
    Synonyms: melma, poltiglia
  2. pigswill, slop
    Synonyms: brodaglia, sbobba
  3. (figurative) verbose, nonsensical writing

Further reading

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  • boba2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Japanese

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Romanization

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boba

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ぼば

Lithuanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *bā́ˀbāˀ. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *baba (“old woman”).

Noun

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bóba f stress pattern 1

  1. old woman
  2. woman
  3. wife

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  • Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 32
  • “boba”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012

Livvi

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Boba (1).
 
Boba (2).

Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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Noun

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boba

  1. toy
  2. flower

Declension

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Declension of boba (Type 2/boba, b-v gradation)
singular plural
nominative boba bovat
genitive bovan boviin
partitive bobua bobii
illative bobah bobiih
inessive bovas boviis
elative bovaspäi boviispäi
allative bovale boviile
adessive boval boviil
ablative bovalpäi boviilpäi
translative bovakse boviikse
essive bovannu boviinnu
abessive bovattah boviittah
comitative bovanke boviinke
instructive boviin
prolative bovači

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  • Tatjana Boiko (2019) “boba”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 26

Lower Sorbian

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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boba

  1. genitive singular of bob
  2. nominative dual of bob
  3. accusative dual of bob

Portuguese

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Adjective

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boba

  1. feminine singular of bobo

Serbo-Croatian

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Noun

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boba (Cyrillic spelling боба)

  1. genitive singular of bob

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈboba/ [ˈbo.β̞a]
  • Rhymes: -oba
  • Syllabification: bo‧ba

Etymology 1

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See bobo.

Adjective

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boba

  1. feminine singular of bobo

Noun

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boba

  1. female equivalent of bobo

Etymology 2

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boba (1)
 
boba (2)

Borrowed from English boba, ultimately from Cantonese 波霸 (bo1 baa3, “large breasts, tapioca pearls”).

Noun

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boba m (plural bobas)

  1. Synonym of perlas de tapioca
  2. Short for té de boba.
    ¿Podemos tomar otro boba?
    Can we have another boba?

Further reading

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“boba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish boba.

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Adjective

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boba (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊ)

  1. feminine of bobo: stupid; dumb
    • 2020, Jan Milo Severo, “'It's so fake': Vivian Velez goes viral for comparing Robredo's look to Miss Tapia”, in The Philippine Star‎[1]:
      "Obviously, they want to make her look smarter (kasi nga boba) with those glasses on and books on the table, not to mention the color choice of her outfit. Ano 'to, shooting? Playing 'the president' daw sya?" she added.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Noun

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boba (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊ)

  1. female equivalent of bobo: stupid woman; foolish woman

West Makian

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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boba

  1. (stative) to call, summon
    boba ti baba ― call your father

Conjugation

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Conjugation of boba (stative verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person tiboba miboba aboba
2nd person niboba fiboba
3rd person inanimate iboba diboba
animate maboba
imperative —, boba —, boba

Alternative forms

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References

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  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[2], Pacific linguistics
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