ba

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1 1.1.1 Verb 1.2 Etymology 2 1.2.1 Noun 1.3 Anagrams 2 Kurdish 2.1 Noun 3 Mandarin 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Noun 3.3 Pronunciation 3.4 Verb 3.5 Noun 3.6 Particle 3.7 See also 3.8 Phonetic syllable 3.9 Pinyin 3.10 Phonetic syllable 3.10.1 Usage notes 3.11 References 4 Vietnamese 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Noun 4.3 Numeral 4.3.1 Related terms 4.3.2 See also 5 Volapük 5.1 Adverb

[edit] English

Wikipedia

[edit] Etymology 1

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

[edit] Verb

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

1. (intransitive) (obsolete) To kiss.

[edit] Etymology 2

Egyptian 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: 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. — Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: ab , Ab, AB, a.b., A&B, A/B

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[edit] Kurdish

[edit] Noun

ba m.

1. wind

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [pa˥˥]
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[edit] Noun

ba (Pinyin bā, traditional and simplified 八)

1. (Beginning Mandarin) eight

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [pa˨˩˦]
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[edit] Verb

ba (Pinyin bǎ)

1. a special type of helping verb which, when placed in front of the object of a sentence, allows for the object of the sentence to be placed before the verb. This allows for greater flexibility in complex sentence construction.

   他把刀放在桌子上

   tā bǎ dāo fàng zài zhuōzi shàng.

   he puts the knife on the table (literal word order of original: he bǎ knife put at table top)

   • ba miaor zaicha zhi le.

   the young plant has been transplanted vertically.

2. (prefix) to guard; to have control over

   把守 (Pinyin bǎshǒu, to guard; to defend)

   把握 (Pinyin bǎwò, to grasp; to control; to master)

[edit] Noun

ba (Pinyin bǎ)

1. measure word for anything that can be held in one's hand

   三把刀 (Pinyin sān bǎ dāo, three knives)

2. handle

ba (Pinyin bā, traditional and simplified 八)

1. eight

[edit] Particle

ba (Pinyin ba5, traditional and simplified 吧)

1. used at the end of a sentence to indicate a suggested action; let us ...; why don't you ...

   zou ba! (走吧)

   let's go!

[edit] See also

• (Min Nan) 共 (kā) special helping verb

[edit] Phonetic syllable

ba (Pinyin bā, traditional and simplified 吧)

1. transliteration for ba or bar

[edit] Pinyin

ba (form of ba0 or ba5)

1. 叭: trumpet
2. 罞:
3. 署: public office
4. 吧: emphatic final particle

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ba

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, bā, bá, bǎ, or 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] References

• Shao, Jingmin (ed.) (2000). HSK Dictionary (HSK汉语水平考试词典) (in Mandarin/English). Shanghai: Huadong Teachers College Publishers. ISBN 7561720785.

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Pronunciation

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• IPA: /ba˥/, SAMPA: /ba/

[edit] Noun

ba

1. father

[edit] Numeral

ba

1. (cardinal) three

[edit] Related terms

• tháng ba
• thứ ba, ngày thứ ba

[edit] See also

• tam

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[edit] Volapük

[edit] Adverb

ba

1. perhaps