babo

Galician

Verb

babo

1. first-person singular present indicative of babar

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• babu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.bo/
• Rhymes: -bo, -o
• Hyphenation: ba‧bo

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

babo

1. to carry in the front

Etymology 2

From Malay babu. From Javanese ꦧꦧꦸ (babu, “female servant”, literally “mother”), from Old Javanese babu (“mother; older servant”), wawuh (“familiar, acquainted”). Compare Portuguese babo.

Noun

babo (plural babo-babo)

1. dated spelling of babu (“housemaid”)

Further reading

• “babo”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Istriot

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly a borrowing of Serbo-Croatian bezub. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

babo

1. toothless

References

• 2015, Sandro Cergna, Vocabolario del dialetto di Valle d'Istria, →ISBN, page 34:

Kapampangan

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babaw, from Proto-Austronesian *babaw. Cognate with Paiwan vavaw (“up, above”), Kavalan babaw (“upper surface, upper part, top”), Cebuano babaw (“top”), Palauan bab (“area/space above, top, surface”), Maori waho (“outside”).

Noun

babo

1. surface; top

   Synonym: tas

Adjective

babo

1. upper

Adverb

babo

1. above

   Synonym: tas

Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bawbaw (“shallow”). Compare Tagalog babaw, Tetum fohon.

Noun

babo

1. shoal; shallow (place where water is shallow)

   Synonym: kababon

Mansaka

Noun

babo

1. aunt

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.bɔ/

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• Rhymes: -abɔ
• Syllabification: ba‧bo

Noun

babo f

1. vocative singular of baba

Portuguese

Verb

babo

1. first-person singular present indicative of babar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbabo]

Noun

babo f

1. vocative singular of babă

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bǎːbo/
• Hyphenation: ba‧bo

Etymology 1

Noun

bábo m anim (Cyrillic spelling ба́бо)

1. (regional) father

Declension

Declension of babo

	singular	plural
nominative	bábo	babe
genitive	bábē	baba
dative	babi	babama
accusative	babu	babe
vocative	babo	babe
locative	babi	babama
instrumental	babom	babama

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

babo (Cyrillic spelling бабо)

1. vocative singular of baba

Further reading

• Reković, Ibrahim (2013), Rječnik plavsko-gusinjskoga govora [Dictionary of the Plav-Gusinje dialect], Podgorica: Institut za crnogorski jezik i književnost, →ISBN, page 23