bab
English
Etymology
Noun
bab (plural babs)
- (UK, informal) Baby
- (fishing, East Anglian) A bait for eels, consisting of a bundle of live worms.
- 2006 February 1, John Meiklejohn, “Babbing for eels”, in BBC - WW2 People's War[1]:
- The worms were threaded onto the yarn until we had 4 or 5 feet of big juicy worms threaded through. We would coil it all up and put an old rusty nut at the centre and tie it on a bit of string on an old ash pole — this was the bab.
Synonyms
- (baby): see Thesaurus:baby
- (bait): clod
Verb
bab (third-person singular simple present bab, present participle b, simple past and past participle ing)
- (intransitive, fishing, East Anglian) To fish for eels using a bab.
- 1884, George Christopher Davies, Norfolk Broads and Rivers, W. Blackwood and sons, page 244:
- The babbers follow the eels, and you may see fifteen boats as close together as possible, babbing away, and catching as much as four stone-weight of eels per boat of a night.
- 1948, William Guy, Mostly Memories: Some Digressions, C. J. Cousland, page 24:
- Sometimes we trolled or set liggers for pike, we seldom babbed for eels, it was such a slimy job.
- 2006 February 1, John Meiklejohn, “Babbing for eels”, in BBC - WW2 People's War[2]:
- Another classic example was babbing for eels; he would come along and say — ‘Goodnight for babbing, make you some babs’.
Anagrams
Haitian Creole
Etymology
Noun
bab
Hungarian
Etymology
From a Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian bob, Slovak bôb, Russian боб (bob, “bean”), from Proto-Slavic *bobъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
bab (plural babok)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | bab | babok |
accusative | babot | babokat |
dative | babnak | baboknak |
instrumental | babbal | babokkal |
causal-final | babért | babokért |
translative | babbá | babokká |
terminative | babig | babokig |
essive-formal | babként | babokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | babban | babokban |
superessive | babon | babokon |
adessive | babnál | baboknál |
illative | babba | babokba |
sublative | babra | babokra |
allative | babhoz | babokhoz |
elative | babból | babokból |
delative | babról | babokról |
ablative | babtól | baboktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
babé | baboké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
babéi | babokéi |
Possessive forms of bab | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | babom | babjaim |
2nd person sing. | babod | babjaid |
3rd person sing. | babja | babjai |
1st person plural | babunk | babjaink |
2nd person plural | babotok | babjaitok |
3rd person plural | babjuk | babjaik |
Synonyms
Derived terms
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay bab. From Arabic بَاب (bāb).
Noun
bab (first-person possessive babku, second-person possessive babmu, third-person possessive babnya)
Irish
Noun 1
bab m (genitive singular bab, nominative plural babanna)
- Alternative form of bob (“bob; fringe”)
Noun 2
bab m (genitive singular bab, nominative plural babanna)
- Alternative form of bob (“stump, target”)
Declension
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
bab | bhab | mbab |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bab”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Kurdish
Alternative forms
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Noun
Malay
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
bab
- chapter (section in a book)
Meriam
Noun
bab
Polish
Pronunciation
Noun
bab f
Rohingya
Etymology
From Sanskrit वप्र (vapra). Cognate with Sylheti ꠛꠣꠙ (baf), Assamese বাপ (bap), Bengali বাপ (bap), Hindi बाप (bāp)
Noun
bab
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Puter, Vallader) bap
Etymology
From Late Latin *babbus. Compare Sardinian babbu.
Pronunciation
Noun
bab m (plural babs)
Coordinate terms
See also
- pader (term to address a priest or monk)
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
bab m (genitive singular baba, plural baban or babannan)
- tuft, tassel
- child's excrement (hence abab)
- stain
- Bithidh sin 'n a bhab air fhad 's is beò e.
- That will be a stain on him as long as he lives.
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- Rhymes:Malay/bap
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