babu
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈbɑːbuː/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]babu (plural babus) (India, Hinglish)
- A Hindu title of respect, equivalent to Mr., usually appended to the surname of a Hindu man [from 18th c.]
- 1989, Amitav Ghosh, Shadow Lines:
- I could see Kana-babu’s sweet-shop at the end of their lane with absolute clarity.
- (Originally) a Hindu gentleman employed to work as a clerk for the colonial administration; now, a clerk or low-ranking government official. [from 19th c.]
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “His Chance in Life”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 57:
- The Babu put on his cap and quietly dropped out of the window
- 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 2”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
- Office babus are the real rulers of this country now. Our number's up. Best thing we can do is to shut up shop and let 'em stew in their own juice.
- 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 116:
- From the prevailing colonial perspective, the English of the babus was error-ridden and characterised by over-elaborate ornateness, and for these ‘transgressions’ it became the butt of native-speaker ridicule.
Derived terms
[edit]Brunei Malay
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Javanese ꦧꦧꦸ (babu, “female servant”, literally “mother”), from Old Javanese babu (“mother; older servant”), wawuh (“familiar, acquainted”), ultimately probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *(ʔ)boʔ (“mother”) (compare Temiar buk (“mother”), Jehai baboʔ (“woman”), Vietnamese vợ (“wife”), and Mon ၝောံ (bɜ̀ʔ)).
Noun
[edit]babu
Bunun
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Austronesian *babuy.
Noun
[edit]babu
- pig (livestock)
Indonesian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Malay babu, from Javanese ꦧꦧꦸ (babu, “female servant”, literally “mother”), from Old Javanese babu (“mother; older servant”), wawuh (“familiar, acquainted”), ultimately probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *(ʔ)boʔ (“mother”) (compare with Temiar buk (“mother”), Jehai baboʔ (“woman”), Vietnamese vợ (“wife”), and Mon ၝောံ (bɜ̀ʔ)).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]babu (plural babu-babu)
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “babu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Jarawa
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Hindi बाबू (bābū). Cognate to Önge babu.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]babu
- official, officer (of the Indian government of the Andamans)
References
[edit]- Kumar, Pramod (2012) Descriptive and Typological Study of Jarawa[1] (PhD). Jawaharlal Nehru University. Page 111, 141, 187.
Javanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]babu
- Romanization of ꦧꦧꦸ
Lower Sorbian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]babu
Old Javanese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown, probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *(ʔ)boʔ (“mother”) (compare Temiar buk (“mother”), Jehai baboʔ (“woman”), Vietnamese vợ (“wife”), and Mon ၝောံ (bɜ̀ʔ)).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]babu
- mother
- older servant
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- "babu" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Noun
[edit]babu (Cyrillic spelling бабу)
Shabo
[edit]Adjective
[edit]babu
Slovak
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]babu
Swahili
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]babu class V (plural mababu class VI)
- grandfather (from either side)
- ancestor, forebear
Coordinate terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic بَاب (bāb).
Noun
[edit]babu class IX (plural babu class X)
Tagalog
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A play on babay or English bye-bye.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /baˈbu/ [bɐˈbu]
- Rhymes: -u
- Syllabification: ba‧bu
Interjection
[edit]babú (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜊᜓ)
Ternate
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate to Galela babu, unless the Galela is borrowed from Ternate.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]babu (Jawi بابو)
- (intransitive) (of humans) to fall
- Synonym: doro (of non-humans)
- ngofa ibabu ― children fall
- إبابو تم کاه ― ibabu toma kaha ― they fell on the ground
- (intransitive) to be overthrown
Conjugation
[edit]singular | plural | |||
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inclusive | exclusive | |||
1st person | tobabu | fobabu | mibabu | |
2nd person | nobabu | nibabu | ||
3rd person |
masculine | obabu | ibabu yobabu (archaic) | |
feminine | mobabu | |||
neuter | ibabu |
References
[edit]- Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
Veps
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *papu. The initial b- was introduced by analogy with Russian боб (bob).
Noun
[edit]babu
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of babu (inflection type 1/ilo) | |||
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nominative sing. | babu | ||
genitive sing. | babun | ||
partitive sing. | babud | ||
partitive plur. | babuid | ||
singular | plural | ||
nominative | babu | babud | |
accusative | babun | babud | |
genitive | babun | babuiden | |
partitive | babud | babuid | |
essive-instructive | babun | babuin | |
translative | babuks | babuikš | |
inessive | babus | babuiš | |
elative | babuspäi | babuišpäi | |
illative | babuhu | babuihe | |
adessive | babul | babuil | |
ablative | babulpäi | babuilpäi | |
allative | babule | babuile | |
abessive | babuta | babuita | |
comitative | babunke | babuidenke | |
prolative | babudme | babuidme | |
approximative I | babunno | babuidenno | |
approximative II | babunnoks | babuidennoks | |
egressive | babunnopäi | babuidennopäi | |
terminative I | babuhusai | babuihesai | |
terminative II | babulesai | babuilesai | |
terminative III | babussai | — | |
additive I | babuhupäi | babuihepäi | |
additive II | babulepäi | babuilepäi |
References
[edit]- Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “боб”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary][2], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
Yindjibarndi
[edit]Noun
[edit]babu
- English terms borrowed from Hindi
- English terms derived from Hindi
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- Indian English
- Hinglish
- English terms with quotations
- Brunei Malay terms borrowed from Javanese
- Brunei Malay terms derived from Javanese
- Brunei Malay terms derived from Old Javanese
- Brunei Malay terms derived from Proto-Mon-Khmer
- Brunei Malay lemmas
- Brunei Malay nouns
- Bunun terms inherited from Proto-Austronesian
- Bunun terms derived from Proto-Austronesian
- Bunun lemmas
- Bunun nouns
- bnn:Pigs
- Indonesian terms inherited from Malay
- Indonesian terms derived from Malay
- Indonesian terms derived from Javanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Old Javanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Proto-Mon-Khmer
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Indonesian/bu
- Rhymes:Indonesian/bu/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Indonesian/u
- Rhymes:Indonesian/u/2 syllables
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- Jarawa terms borrowed from Hindi
- Jarawa terms derived from Hindi
- Jarawa terms with IPA pronunciation
- Jarawa lemmas
- Jarawa nouns
- Javanese non-lemma forms
- Javanese romanizations
- Lower Sorbian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Lower Sorbian non-lemma forms
- Lower Sorbian noun forms
- Old Javanese terms with unknown etymologies
- Old Javanese terms derived from Proto-Mon-Khmer
- Old Javanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Old Javanese/bu
- Rhymes:Old Javanese/bu/2 syllables
- Old Javanese lemmas
- Old Javanese nouns
- Serbo-Croatian non-lemma forms
- Serbo-Croatian noun forms
- Shabo lemmas
- Shabo adjectives
- Slovak terms with IPA pronunciation
- Slovak non-lemma forms
- Slovak noun forms
- Swahili terms with audio pronunciation
- Swahili lemmas
- Swahili nouns
- Swahili class V nouns
- Swahili terms borrowed from Arabic
- Swahili terms derived from Arabic
- Swahili terms derived from the Arabic root ب و ب
- Swahili class IX nouns
- sw:Male family members
- Tagalog terms derived from English
- Tagalog 2-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/u
- Rhymes:Tagalog/u/2 syllables
- Tagalog terms with mabilis pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog interjections
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- Tagalog slang
- Ternate terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ternate lemmas
- Ternate verbs
- Ternate intransitive verbs
- Ternate terms with usage examples
- Veps terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Veps terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Veps lemmas
- Veps nouns
- Veps ilo-type nominals
- Yindjibarndi lemmas
- Yindjibarndi nouns
- yij:Family