baa

See also: BAA, baaʼ, bää, and bąą

English

Etymology 1

Compare German bäh, mäh; an imitative word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bɑː]
• IPA^(key): [bæ], [bɑ]
• IPA^(key): [bæ̰ː], [bæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀ]

• Audio (Received Prononunciation):

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• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Homophones: bah, bar (in some pronunciations)

Audio of a bleating sheep, the animal sound that "baa" is based on.

Noun

baa (plural baas)

1. (onomatopoeia) The characteristic cry or bleating of a sheep.

Synonyms

• bleat
• bleating

Translations

bleating of sheep

• Catalan: bel m
• Chinese: 發咩聲, 发咩声 (fā miē shēng)
• Czech: bečení n
• Dutch: bè (nl)
• Faroese: jarm n
• Finnish: mää (fi)
• French: bêlement (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Blöken (de) n
• Greek: βέλασμα (el) n (vélasma)
• Icelandic: jarm (is) n
• Italian: belato (it) m, bè
• Japanese: 羊の鳴き声
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• Kurdish:
• Macedonian: блеење n (bleenje)
• Navajo: meeʼ
• Norwegian: bæ (no) n
• Polish: beczenie (pl)
• Portuguese: balido (pt) m
• Russian: бле́яние (ru) n (bléjanije)
• Serbo-Croatian: блејање n, blejanje n
• Spanish: balido (es) m, be (es)
• Swedish: bä (sv) (interjection), bräkande (sv) n
• Turkish: me (tr), meleme (tr)
• Vietnamese: be be (vi)

Interjection

baa

1. (onomatopoeia) The characteristic cry of a sheep.

Translations

cry of sheep

• Afrikaans: bê
• Czech: bé (cs)
• Danish: mæh (da), mæ
• Faroese: mæ
• Finnish: bää, mää (fi)
• German: bäh (de), mäh (de)
• Greek: μπε (be)

  Ancient:

• Icelandic: mee
• Italian: beè (it)
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• Japanese: メー (mē)
• Latin: bee
• Norwegian: bæ (no)
• Polish: bee (pl)
• Portuguese: bé (pt)
• Russian: бэ-бэ (bɛ-bɛ), ме (ru) (me), бе (ru) (be)
• Scottish Gaelic: mè
• Serbo-Croatian: бе, be
• Swedish: bä (sv)
• Turkish: me (tr)

Verb

baa (third-person singular simple present baas, present participle baaing, simple past and past participle baaed)

1. To make the characteristic cry of a sheep.
   • (Can we date this quote by Sir Philip Sidney and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     He treble baas for help, but none can get.

Translations

to make the cry of sheep

• Catalan: belar (ca)
• Czech: bečet (cs), mečet (cs)
• Danish: bræge
• Dutch: blaten (nl)
• Faroese: jarma
• Finnish: määkiä (fi)
• French: bêler (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: blöken (de), bähen (de), mähen (de)
• Greek: βελάζω (el) (velázo)
• Hungarian: béget (hu)
• Icelandic: jarma (is)
• Italian: belare (it)
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• Japanese: （羊が）鳴く
• Latin: bālō
• Norwegian: breke
• Old English: blǣtan
• Polish: beczeć (pl)
• Portuguese: balir (pt), balar (pt)
• Russian: бле́ять (ru) (bléjatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: блејати, blejati (sh)
• Slovak: bečať impf
• Slovene: blejati
• Spanish: balar (es)
• Swedish: bräka (sv)
• Turkish: melemek (tr)
• Westrobothnian: , ,

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic بَاء (bāʔ).

Noun

baa (plural baas)

1. The letter ب in the Arabic script.

Anagrams

• A.B.A., AAB, ABA, Aba, aab, aba

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Gamilaraay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baː/

Noun

baa

1. hip

References

• Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay Yuwaalayaay Dictionary 2003

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Manx

Noun

1. genitive singular of booa

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Navajo

Postposition

baa

1. about him/her/it/them
2. to him/her/it/them
3. into him/her/it/them

   baa níʼą́ ― I gave it to him

Usage notes

In pronunciation, the postposition baa is assimilated by an initial yi- of a following verb to make beei-: baa yishdloh = /beeishdloh/ (I am laughing at him). This does not affect the spelling, however.

Inflection

Navajo postpositions

	singular	duoplural
1st person	shaa	nihaa
2nd person	naa	nihaa
3rd person	baa
4th person (3o)	yaa
4th person (3a)	haa
4th person (3i)	aa	—
reflexive	ádaa	—
reciprocal	—	ahaa

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Shoshone

Alternative forms

• paa

Noun

baa

1. (Eastern Shoshone) water

References

• Eastern Shoshone Working Dictionary

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Swahili

Etymology 1

Noun

baa (ma class, plural mabaa)

1. evil, plague
2. danger, misfortune

Etymology 2

From English bar.

Noun

baa (n class, plural baa)

1. a bar (social pub for alcoholic drinks)