ba

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology 1

Compare Old French baer (“to open the mouth”); French bayer

[edit] Verb

ba (third-person singular simple present bas, present participle baing, simple past and past participle baed)

  1. (intransitive) (obsolete) To kiss.

[edit] Etymology 2

From Egyptian 𓅽𓏤 (bA).

[edit] Noun

ba (plural bas)

  1. In ancient Egyptian mythology, a being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food.
    • 1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings:
      But the Ba, I remembered, could be seen as the mistress of your heart and might or might not decide to speak to you, just as the heart cannot always forgive.

[edit] Anagrams

[edit] Borôro

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈbaː/

[edit] Noun

ba

  1. egg

[edit] Gothic

[edit] Romanization

ba

  1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰

[edit] Haitian Creole

[edit] Etymology

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[edit] Verb

ba

  1. give

[edit] Synonyms

[edit] Italian

[edit] Interjection

ba

  1. bah!
  2. oh well!

[edit] Japanese

[edit] Syllable

ba

  1. The hiragana syllable ば (ba) or the katakana syllable バ (ba) in Hepburn romanization.

[edit] Kurdish

[edit] Noun

ba m.

  1. wind

[edit] Lojban

[edit] Etymology

From balvi.

[edit] Cmavo

ba

  1. (subordinating conjunction) after
    ba lenu la jan. cliva kei la suzyn. klama le barja [1]
    After Zhang left, Susan came to the bar.
    la suzyn. klama ba lenu la jan. cliva kei le barja
    Susan came (after Zhang left) to the bar.
    la suzyn. klama le barja ba lenu la jan. cliva kei
    Susan came to the bar after Zhang left.
  2. (adverbial particle) future tense tag[2]

[edit] Usage notes

  • The elidable terminator for a subordinate clause begun with "ba lenu" is kei.

[edit] Antonyms

[edit] References

  1. ^ Lojban for Beginners, Chapter 6, §3
  2. ^ Lojban Reference Grammar, Chapter 2, §17

[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Romanization

ba

  1. 叭:
  2. 罞:
  3. 署:
  4. 吧:
  5. Nonstandard spelling of bā.
  6. Nonstandard spelling of bá.
  7. Nonstandard spelling of bǎ.
  8. Nonstandard spelling of bà.

[edit] Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Etymology 1

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[edit] Noun

ba

  1. father

[edit] Etymology 2

Proto-Mon-Khmer *piʔ. Cognates include Khmer បី (bəi).

[edit] Numeral

ba

  1. (cardinal) three
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[edit] See also

[edit] Volapük

[edit] Adverb

ba

  1. perhaps
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