Ba-ben

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Vietnamese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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French Babel. Used in Genesis for "Babylon" since the Vietnamese Catholic translation deferred to older European translations, unlike the New International Version. Doublet of Ba-bi-lon.

Proper noun

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Ba-ben

  1. Babel
  2. (biblical, Catholicism, Genesis) Babel; Babylon