ba

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ba"

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French baer (“to open the mouth”); compare French bayer.

Verb

ba (third-person singular simple present bas, present participle baing, simple past and past participle baed)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To kiss.
    • Geoffrey Chaucer, The Tale of the Wyf of Bathe
      Com neer, my spouse, lat me ba thy cheke!

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Egyptian bꜣ,

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Noun

ba (plural bas)

  1. In ancient Egyptian mythology, a being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food.
    • 1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings:
      But the Ba, I remembered, could be seen as the mistress of your heart and might or might not decide to speak to you, just as the heart cannot always forgive.

Etymology 3

The sound is very commonly made by infants, and is interpreted by parents as a reference to themselves.

Noun

ba (plural bas) (not generally used in the plural)

  1. (colloquial, and in direct address) father, baba

Anagrams

Akan

Verb

ba

  1. (Fante) come

References

  • Rose-Juliet Anyanwu, Fundamentals of Phonetics, Phonology and Tonology (2008)

Bakung

ba

Noun

ba

  1. water (clear liquid H₂O)
  2. water (mineral water)

Borôro

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaː/

Noun

ba

  1. egg

Cebuano

Pronunciation 1

  • (General Cebuano) IPA(key): /ˈbaʔ/
  • Rhymes: -aʔ

Particle

ba

  1. final interrogative particle

Pronunciation 2

  • (General Cebuano) IPA(key): /ˈba/
  • Rhymes: -a

Etymology

Short for baba.

Verb

ba

  1. to piggyback; to carry someone on the back

Cimbrian

Pronoun

ba

  1. (relative) that; which; who

Adverb

ba

  1. (interrogative) where

References

  • “ba” in Umberto Martello Martalar, Alfonso Bellotto, Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Setti Communi vicentini, 1st edition, 1974.

Duun

Etymology

Onomatopoeic?

Noun

ba

  1. goat

Further reading

Eastern Penan

Noun

ba

  1. water

References

Gothic

Romanization

ba

  1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰

Haitian Creole

Verb

ba

  1. give

Synonyms

Irish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bˠa/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /bˠɑh/[1]

Noun

ba f pl

  1. plural of bó
    Tá na ba sa mhá.
    The cows are in the field.

Etymology 2

From Old Irish ba.

Alternative forms

  • (affirmative): b’ (used before a vowel sound except for the pronouns é, í, iad, ea)
  • (relative): ab (used before a vowel sound)
  • badh (archaic)
  • budh (superseded)
  • dob, dob' (dialectal equivalent of b’)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bˠə/

Particle

ba (triggers lenition)

  1. past and conditional affirmative of is
    Ba é Dónall an múinteoir.
    Dónall was the teacher.
    Ba mhaith liom cupán tae.
    I would like a cup of tea.
  2. past and conditional direct relative of is (used to introduce the comparative/superlative form of adjectives)
    fear ba shine ná m'athair ― a man (who was) older than my father

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
ba bha mba
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ↑ Ó Searcaigh, Séamus (1925), Foghraidheacht Ghaedhilge an Tuaiscirt, Belfast: Brún agus Ó Nualláin [Browne and Nolan], § 2.

Italian

Interjection

ba

  1. bah!
  2. oh well!

Japanese

Romanization

ba

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ば
  2. Rōmaji transcription of バ

Kriol

Preposition

ba

  1. Alternative form of blanga

Kurdish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian [Term?] (compare Avestan 𐬬𐬁𐬙𐬋‎ (vātō), Pashto and Persian باد‎ (bâd)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian [Term?] (compare Sanskrit वात (vā́ta)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts (“blowing”), present participle of *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).

Noun

ba m

  1. weather
  2. wind

Mandarin

Romanization

ba (Zhuyin ˙ㄅㄚ)

  1. Pinyin transcription of 吧
  2. Pinyin transcription of 罷, 罢
  3. Pinyin transcription of 𣬶
  4. Pinyin transcription of 𣬷

ba

  1. Nonstandard spelling of bā.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of bá.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of bǎ.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of bà.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Verb

ba

  1. simple past of be

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • (2nd sg. pres. subj.): be

Verb

ba

  1. inflection of is:
    1. first-person and second-person and third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative
    3. third-person singular preterite and imperfect indicative nonrelative and relative

Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba/

Particle

ba

  1. marks a sentence as interrogative

Tiruray

Noun

ba

  1. (anatomy) mouth

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 爸 (“father”; SV: bả).

Noun

ba (巴, 爸)

  1. (chiefly Southern Vietnam) father
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Vietnamese cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : ba

From Proto-Vietic *paː, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *piʔ; cognate with Muong pa, Khmer បី (bəy), Halang pe, Pacoh pe, Mon ပိ (pi).

Numeral

ba (巴, 𠀧)

  1. (cardinal) three

Adjective

ba (巴, 𠀧)

  1. (Southern Vietnam, ordinal, of a sibling) secondborn
    anh/chị ba ― second eldest brother/sister
    bác ba ― second eldest brother/sister of one's parent
    chú ba ― secondborn younger brother of one's father
Derived terms

Determiner

ba

  1. (colloquial) some, an indefinite quantity greater than one
    Ba cái đó chả đáng quan tâm.
    There's no need to be concerned about those.

Volapük

Adverb

ba

  1. perhaps

Yapese

Verb

ba

  1. (auxiliary) to be (doing something); forms the present tense

Zulu

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *-ba, from Proto-Bantu *-báa.

Verb

-ba

  1. to be
  2. to become

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

References

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