exclamation of surprise or amazement.
Deaf people who communicate with Auslan (Australia Sign Language) invent new words and phrases to match what they want to communicate, and the language evolves. The most common signs are “baba”, “pah” and “woof”. “baba” means usual or strange. “pah” means oh I get it! “woof” means easy.
Baba can be a surname in a few cultures such as Japanese, Assyrian, Russian, etc. It is also a nickname for father in a few languages. Baba also translates to "father" in the Arabic and Shona languages. Note, in various Slavic languages "baba" means an [old] lady (as in diminutive variation babushka).
The most common name for father used in Greece today is indeed the word baba, a Turkish word, pronounced mbamba with the accent on the second syllable. It is used most often to address the father.
Baba is a word found in several Middle Eastern and Asian languages, including Sanskrit and Hindi, that means “father,” “grandfather” and “wise old man.” It is used as a form of address to show respect for an older man.
What Does Babà Mean in Italian? In the dialect of Naples, if you're said “si nu' babbà” it means you're a nice and sweet person. Even though it has nothing to do with the famous pastry from Naples, the term Baba used in its feminine form is also a regional term which means “old lady”.
In contemporary Polish and Russian, baba is the pejorative synonym for 'woman', especially one that is old, dirty or foolish.
[baba ] invariable adjective. en être baba (informal) to be flabbergasted ⧫ to be gobsmacked (Brit) (informal) masculine or feminine noun.
Baba "father, grandfather, wise old man, sir"; is an honorific term, of Persian origin, used in several West Asian and South Asian cultures.
Bye-bye! [coll.] Baba {f} (rum) baba gastr.
Some Japanese children call their grandparents by the nicknames Jiji (from ojiisan) and Baba (from obaasan). Unlike grandparents in many other Asian cultures, the Japanese do not have different names for maternal and paternal grandparents.
grandmother: many Slavic languages (such as Bulgarian, Russian, Czech and Polish), Romanian, Yiddish, Japanese. grandfather: Azerbaijani, Zulu (father, grandfather) baby: Afrikaans, Sinhala, Hungarian.
New Testament. an Aramaic word for father, used by Jesus and Paul to address God in a relation of personal intimacy.
爸爸 ( bàba) means dad, or father, in Chinese.
"Baba" means "father" in many of the African languages in southern Africa, with a connotation of respect attached to a highly valued social role and age.
Baba (Chinese: 粑粑, pinyin: Bābā) is a type of thick, round, heavy bread that is prepared either plain or with various fillings by the Naxi people of north-western Yunnan, China.
Baba - in tagalog means "chin" while Bababa simply means "going down".
Baba is actually the word for 'father' in Arabic and Java is another word for coffee.
The Polish word baba and its diminutive, babka, mean either 'grandmother' or 'old woman' (or even just 'woman', in some contexts).
babá [baˈba ] feminine noun. nanny. Copyright © 2014 by HarperCollins Publishers.
father: used by some South Asians to show respect to an older man. used by some South Asians when talking to a friend or a child, especially a man or boy. Family: informal names.
The origins of Baba au Rhum come from the babka - a yeast cake that can still be found in Poland and Ukraine. In fact, Baba means "grandmother", while babka means something more affectionate roughly translating to "little grandmother."' So how did a Polish cake make it to France?
Babka relates to the Ukrainian word baba, meaning "old woman" or grandmother".
In Bulgarian, the word Baba translates to “grandmother”, while Mart translates to the month of March.
In the dictionary, "baba" means drool... but I heard of this phrase "mala baba" and I think it's used more like "mala intencion".