babah

Acehnese

Acehnese Spelling
EBAYD	babah
Husaini
Jawoe	بابه

Etymology

From Proto-Chamic *babah, *mabah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baqbaq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /babah/

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• Hyphenation: ba‧bah

Noun

babah

1. mouth

   Bèk bagah tapatéh keu babah ureueng ― Don't be quick to believe people's mouths

   1. estuary

      babah krueng ― river estuary

   2. enterance

      di babah pintô ― at the door's enterance

References

• “babah”, in Kamus Aceh Indonesia [Acehnese-Indonesian Dictionary] (Seri K; 85), Seri 1. A-L [Volume 1. A-L] (eBook; overall work in Indonesian), Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, 1985, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 45
• “بابه”, in Woordenboek der Atjehsche Taal [Dictionary of the Acehnese Language]‎^[1] (overall work in Dutch), Den Haag: 's Gravenhage : Martinus Nijhoff, 1889, page 25