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Definition: Baby |
BabyAdjective1. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant; "baby rabbits". 2. (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity; "baby carrots"; "new potatoes"; "young corn". Noun1. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk; "isn't she too young to have a baby?". 2. (slang) sometimes used as a term of address for attractive young women. 3. A very young mammal: "baby rabbits". 4. The youngest member of a group (not necessarily young); "the baby of the family"; "the baby of the Supreme Court". 5. An immature childish person; "he remained a child in practical matters as long as he lived"; "stop being a baby!". 6. A project of personal concern to someone; "this project is his baby". Verb1. Treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "baby" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
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19th Century Satire | From Grk. babai, wonderful. Parents are yet to be heard from who don't think theirs is a "wonder." A nocturnal animal to which everyone in a sleeping-car is eager to give a wide berth. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Biographical Satire | BABY, T. H. E., an unscrupulous tyrant, s. father and mother. His first appearance caused heaven at home, and an idiotic father. Education: At home. Career: A series of adventures. Was frequently ill, a poor sleeper, toy demolisher, throat exerciser, nurse distractor, and a general nuisance. Despite his shortcomings he ruled Home with an iron hand--a tear caused a doctor-- a smile meant a gold mine. Diet: Principally liquid. Ambition: The moon. Recreation: Coaching, hair pulling, a proud father. Address: See Mother. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of crying babies, is indicative of ill health and disappointments. A bright, clean baby, denotes love requited, and many warm friends. Walking alone, it is a sure sign of independence and a total ignoring of smaller spirits. If a woman dream she is nursing a baby, she will be deceived by the one she trusts most. It is a bad sign to dream that you take your baby if sick with fever. You will have many sorrows of mind. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Medicine | Child under the age of 12 months. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Infant comes from the Latin in-fans, meaning unable to speak. It is commonly used as a slightly more formal word for baby (the youngest category of child). A newborn baby is known as a neonate.
Infant mortality is the death of infants in the first year of life. Major causes of infant mortality include congenital malformation, infection and SIDS. Neonatal mortality is a subcategory which only includes deaths in the first 27 days of life. Post-neonatal death is a subcategory which only includes deaths after 28 days of life but before one year. "Infant mortality" can also refer to the high failure rate of newly manufactured mechanical or electrical equipment, see repair and maintenance. Infant mortality rate is the number of newborns dying under a year of age divided by the number of live births during the year. The infant mortality rate is also called the infant death rate. Infant mortality has significantly declined mainly due to improvements in basic health care, though high technology medical advances have also helped.
This epidemiological indicator is recognized as an important measure of the level of healthcare in a country because it is directly linked with the health status of infants, children, and pregnant women as well as access to medical care, socioeconomic conditions, and public health practices.
Feeding is done by breastfeeding or with special industrial milk, "infant formula". Babies have a sucking instinct allowing them to extract the milk from the nipples of the breasts or of the nipple of the baby bottle.
Breastfeeding provides babies with many natural immune substances and isolates the baby from most bacteria or other contaminations in the local water supply. Infant formula does not provide these immune substances and in places with poor quality water supply subjects the baby to disease which it would not be subjected to if breastfed. Public relations methods have been used to encourage the use of infant formula and increase profits for corporations which produce and sell the infant formula, despite negotiations between mothers' networks like Baby Milk Action, the World Health Organisation and corporations.
The annual worldwide death toll due to these public relations methods is estimated at about 1.5 million. [1]
Babies are incontinent, therefore diapers are used.
Babies can not walk, transport may be by perambulator (stroller) or on the back or in front in a special bag or cloth.
Unlike other people, babies often cry without apparent cause.
As is the case of most of other young children, the social presence of infants is different from that of adult individuals. They are usually treated as special persons. They may be the focus of attention. On the other hand, fees of transportation and entrance fees are often less or nothing, possibly with requirements about who guides them. One reason is that e.g. a baby is taken in an amusement park not to have fun, or in a museum not to watch the artwork, but because it can not be left at home.
The term infant is also used as formal term for minor, i.e. child in general.
External Links
- Infant mortality rates in different countries and other health indicators :
- Baby Milk Action - network opposing the killing of 1.5 million babies per year
- Baby pictures
- Baby poems
- Baby shower
- Free Baby shower games
- Baby shower favors
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Infant."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| BAT | English | Baby Advanced Technology | Computer - (AT) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: BabySynonyms: baby(a) (adj), infant(a) (adj), infantile (adj), new (adj), young (adj), babe (n), child (n), infant (n), sister (n), cocker (v), coddle (v), cosset (v), featherbed (v), indulge (v), mollycoddle (v), pamper (v), spoil (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: babying (medicine, statistics), breast-fed (medicine, statistics). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Swaddling cloth, baby linen, layette; ice wool; taffeta. |
Fool | Child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop. |
Gravity | Balance, scale, scales, steelyard, beam, weighbridge; spring balance, piezoelectric balance, analytical balance, two-pan balance, one-pan balance; postal scale, baby scale. |
Infant | Noun: infant, babe, baby, babe in arms; nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling; papoose, bambino; kid; vagitus. |
Adjective: infantine, infantile; puerile; boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish; baby; newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow. | |
Pulpiness | Mush, oatmeal, baby food. |
Weakness | On its last legs; weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat; weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water; colorless. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Oh Heather baby! Why don't you tell me my dick is as big as Stifler's (American Pie 2; writing credit: Adam Herz; David H. Steinberg) Milo, baby, lemme handle this one, eh (Sleuth; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer) Look at you, you have a baby!In a bar (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox) Oh please, this baby owes it's life to Long Island Ice Teas (The Opposite of Sex; writing credit: Don Roos.) Go back to your playpen, Baby. (Dirty Dancing; writing credit: Eleanor Bergstein) | |
Lyrics | I just wanna love you baby (Rock Wit U(Awww Baby); performing artist: ASHANTI) You were born to be my baby (Born To Be My Baby; performing artist: Bon Jovi) Oh, it took so long to find you, baby (Baby I'm-A Want You; performing artist: Bread) Everybody wanna treat my baby so cold, so cold (Everybody's Talkin My Baby Down; performing artist: Dion) She's got to be somebody's baby. (SOMEBODY'S BABY; performing artist: Jackson Browne) | |
Clever | A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty. (references; author: Mark Twain) The biggest man you ever did see was once a baby. (references; author: unknown) If corn oil comes from corn, where does baby oil come from? (references; author: unknown) Parental Observation: A baby usually wakes up in the wee-wee hours of the morning. (references; author: unknown) An adolescent is a person who acts like a baby when he isn't treated like an adult. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes (1974) The Baby (1973) Relax Baby (1973) Trick Baby (1973) Betty Baby (1971) | |
Song Titles | Crazy Baby (performing artist: Rodney Crowell) BABY I NEED YOUR LOVIN' (performing artist: Four Tops ) Cry Baby (performing artist: Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters) Rock Your Baby (performing artist: George McCrae) BABY THE RAIN MUST FALL (performing artist: Glenn Yarbrough ) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Shows 1962 photo of baby born with an extra appendage connected to the foot caused by the pregnant mother taking the drug Thalidomide. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | A white nurse taking care of a baby in an intensive care unit. See artwork: NCI-40a. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |
 | Mother with children waiting to be immunized in a well baby clinic in Dekalb County, GA. Credit: CDC. |  | Lt. Lew Consiglieri holding a baby seal on the ice floes in the Bering Sea Off of NOAA Ship SURVEYOR during OCSEAP Project. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | The joy of kissing the baby Equator crossing on NOAA Ship MOUNT MITCHELL. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | A baby red-bellied slider turtle (Pseudemys rubriventris rubriventris.). Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | A baby snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina.). Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Look hard and you will find a baby giant petrel camouflaged in the rocks. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Ahhhh! What a cute baby! Weddell seal pup. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Mom, Dad, and Baby enjoy a day of fishing at Manasquan Inlet. Credit: Fisheries. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Baby sleep" by Andre Pereira Commentary: "Baby sleeping and dreaming." | "Baby face" by Turgut Tepe Commentary: "Cleaned unneceserily detail from the photo." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Long baby cry. | | Screaming baby. |
| Baby crying. | | Baby cooing. |
| Baby cooing. | | Baby sneezing. |
| Baby crying. | | Baby crying. |
| Baby coo. | | Baby laughing. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Anne Ridler | And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own. |
Carl Sandburg | A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. |
Gaius Valerius Catullus | I would see a little Torquatus, stretching his baby hands from his mother's lap, smile a sweet smile at his father with lips half parted. |
Ronald Reagan | Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Here is my sketch of the fourth, who was a baby. |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | The baby grunted again, and Alice looked very anxiously into its face to see what was the matter with it. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The first baby takes the place of the last doll |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He was baby tuckoo |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The baby has a cold |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The baby was born early (premature). (references) | |
The baby had physical problems at birth. (references) | ||
Use a smaller-than-usual spoon, such as a baby spoon. (references) | ||
Business | Gift baskets for new baby arrivals include baby clothing, toiletries or fresh fruit. (references) | |
Over 54% of Japanese children's wear manufacturers focus on the toddler and the baby markets. (references) | ||
Female infanticide, abandonment, or neglect of baby girls may also be a factor in some areas. (references) | ||
Children | South Africa | The incident followed a series of recent rapes of baby girls. (references) |
China | Neglect of baby girls is one factor in their lower survival rate. (references) | |
Indonesia | In September 2000, a network of illegal baby adoptions was uncovered by the authorities. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Saint Kitts and Nevis | During the year, there were at least two peaceful public candlelight vigils; one protested a killing by three young men, and another protested violence against women following the shooting deaths of an 18-year-old mother and her baby. (references) |
Economic History | Bahamas | There is no duty on market basket items -- breads, rice, sugar, corned beef and baby foods. (references) |
Denmark | Kirsten Thorup's Baby, winner of the 1980 Pegasus Prize, is printed in English by the University of Louisiana Press. (references) | |
Human Rights | Yemen | Salem's baby also died. (references) |
India | A woman was shot and her baby killed. (references) | |
Argentina | Acevedo was standing at a kiosk holding her 19-month-old baby at the time. (references) | |
Minorities | Israel and the occupied territories | In August in a shopping mall in Haifa, a man threw a Druze baby against a wall after he heard the child's parents speaking Arabic. (references) |
Political Economy | AUSTRIA | Other important requirements include washing instructions on textiles, and certification of safety (the CE mark) on machines, toys, and baby accessories. (references) |
Poland | The ongoing process of restructuring and increasing numbers of youths entering the labor force as a result of the postmartial law baby boom have increased unemployment. (references) | |
Trade | Bangladesh | A measuring spoon must be supplied in all containers of baby food. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | Labeling and expiration date requirements are stringent and an export impediment for U.S. fresh eggs and bottled baby food products. (references) | |
Austria | The most important requirements include washing instructions on textiles, and certification of safety (the CE mark) on machines, toys, and baby accessories. (references) | |
Worker Rights | United Arab Emirates | The family reportedly lived in a makeshift camp in the city of Al-Ain; the couple's daughters and baby born in the country were not given residence visas to remain in the country. (references) |
Niger | Child labor practically was nonexistent in the formal (wage) sector, and there were no known instances of the use of child labor in factories; however, children worked in the unregulated agricultural, commercial, and artisan sectors, and some, especially foreign youths, were hired in homes as general helpers and baby sitters for very low pay. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BABE or :BABY:, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion. There have been famous babes; for example, little Moses, from whose adventure in the bulrushes the Egyptian hierophants of seven centuries before doubtless derived their idle tale of the child Osiris being preserved on a floating lotus leaf. Ere babes were invented The girls were contended. Now man is tormented Until to buy babes he has squandered His money. And so I have pondered This thing, and thought may be 'T were better that Baby The First had been eagled or condored. Ro Amil |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Baby Jesus needs a new pair of shoes! |
Liza Minnelli | It's also the angle of the camera. Of course nobody should do that to a child. Did he do that or was he holding the baby up over to the railing like he introduced his other little boy. Before I say anything like that, I'd want to know the truth. |
Matthew Perry | Well, not really, or at least not yet. So far we've just worked with kind of a little mechanical baby that moves in a very strange, frightening way. |
Rosie O'Donnell | Listen, it warms me like nothing else to see how much her life has grown from the addition of this beautiful baby girl. And it's very similar to the way I feel my life has totally flourished and become full as the result of my son. |
Rush Limbaugh | If we don't do anything about Social Security, the Baby Boomers are going to be up the creek without a paddle. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | They're the volunteers at the hospital choking back their tears for the hundredth time, caring for a baby struggling for life because of a mother who used drugs. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | If we choose wisely, we can pay down the debt, deal with the retirement of the baby boomers, invest more in our future, and provide tax relief. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Baby" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.90% of the time. "Baby" is used about 9,056 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.9% | 9,047 | 1,056 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.09% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9,056 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "baby": a big baby ♦ baby AT ♦ Baby B.E.S.T. ♦ baby bed ♦ baby bird ♦ baby blue ♦ baby bond ♦ baby boom ♦ baby boomer ♦ baby bottle ♦ baby boy ♦ baby brother ♦ baby buggy ♦ baby bust ♦ baby buster ♦ baby calf ♦ baby car ♦ baby carriage ♦ baby clothes ♦ baby coach ♦ baby Doc ♦ baby doctor ♦ baby doll ♦ baby doll pyjamas ♦ baby face ♦ baby farm ♦ baby farmer ♦ Baby farming ♦ baby food ♦ baby foods ♦ baby formula milk ♦ baby girl ♦ baby grand ♦ baby grand piano ♦ baby home ♦ baby hood ♦ baby house ♦ baby in arms ♦ Baby jumper ♦ baby linen ♦ baby mouse ♦ baby nurse ♦ baby nursery ♦ baby nursing ♦ baby of the family ♦ baby oil ♦ baby pants ♦ baby powder ♦ baby rose ♦ baby scale ♦ baby scales ♦ baby shoe ♦ baby shower ♦ baby sit ♦ baby sitter ♦ baby sitting ♦ baby sling ♦ baby snatcher ♦ baby solarspot ♦ baby spot ♦ baby spot light ♦ baby talk ♦ baby tears ♦ baby tooth ♦ battered baby ♦ be left holding the baby ♦ blue baby ♦ bouncing baby ♦ bush baby ♦ carry the baby ♦ change a baby ♦ give a baby prepared babyfoods ♦ have a baby ♦ hold the baby ♦ hush a baby to sleep ♦ it's your baby ♦ Kern baby ♦ leave smb. holding the baby ♦ little baby ♦ lullaby baby ♦ lullaby my baby ♦ newborn baby ♦ newborn baby boy ♦ newborn baby girl ♦ premature baby ♦ preterm baby ♦ rhesus baby ♦ shaken baby syndrome ♦ sing a baby to sleep ♦ start a baby ♦ stillborn baby ♦ sugar baby ♦ test tube baby ♦ thalidomide baby ♦ that's my baby ♦ war baby. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "baby": baby-baby, baby-basket, baby-bath, baby-batterers, baby-battering, baby-besotted, baby-blue, baby-blue-eyes, baby-boom, baby-boomerang, baby-boomers, baby-bottle, baby-bottom, baby-buggy, baby-care, baby-carriage, baby-carrying, baby-clothes, baby-cry, baby-day, baby-doll, baby-doll face, baby-dress, Baby-dyke, baby-eating, baby-elephant, baby-face, baby-faced, baby-farming, baby-fat, baby-feed, baby-feeder, baby-feeding, baby-food, baby-friendly, baby-frilled, baby-furnace, baby-gates, baby-gown, baby-gro, baby-grows, baby-kissers, baby-like, baby-linked, baby-listening, baby-mad, baby-madda, baby-maker, baby-minder, baby-minding, baby-naming, baby-operated, baby-out-with-the-bathwater, baby-pink, baby-plump, baby-sat, baby-seal, baby-seat, baby-signals, baby-sit, baby-sits, baby-sitter, baby-sitters, baby-sitting, baby-sized, baby-slopes, baby-snatch, baby-snatching, baby-soap, baby-soft, baby-stroller, baby-swop, baby-talk, baby-talking, baby-trumpet, baby-waby, baby-walker, baby-walkers, baby-watching, baby-weighing scales, baby-wipes, baby-wise. | |
Ending with "baby": cry-baby, jelly-baby, mother-and-baby, mother-baby. | |
Containing "baby": anti-baby pill, cry-baby tree, where's-my-baby-blues. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
baby name | 43,894 | baby crib | 2,126 |
baby r us | 28,384 | baby portrait | 2,005 |
baby | 28,342 | baby book | 1,898 |
baby shower | 8,990 | baby toy | 1,886 |
baby shower game | 7,770 | baby product | 1,827 |
baby clothing | 5,564 | baby announcement | 1,762 |
baby furniture | 5,307 | baby gap | 1,738 |
baby shower invitation | 4,756 | baby nursery | 1,679 |
baby center | 4,062 | baby photo | 1,644 |
baby animal | 3,888 | free baby stuff | 1,468 |
beanie baby | 3,860 | baby blanket | 1,465 |
baby gift | 3,713 | baby name for girl | 1,444 |
baby phat | 3,615 | baby doll | 1,408 |
baby picture | 3,539 | baby boy name | 1,384 |
baby bedding | 3,438 | baby horse | 1,364 |
baby depot | 2,591 | american baby | 1,349 |
baby sitter | 2,479 | baby store | 1,321 |
baby shower favor | 2,220 | baby quilt | 1,293 |
meaning of baby name | 2,155 | baby girl | 1,243 |
baby shower idea | 2,149 | adult baby | 1,236 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "baby"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | baba, babetjie. (various references) | |
Albanian | bebe (apple of the eye, pupil), vepër (act, action, composition, creation, deed, doing, piece, work), krijesë (being, creation, creature), i vogël (diminutive, exiguous, Ling, little, one horse, paltry, peripheral, petit, petty, pimping, pocket-size, poky, reckling, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, small, trivial, undersized), i dashur (affable, affected, affectionate, amiable, beloved, caring, darling, dear, debonair, fond, friendly, genial, gentle, good, good natured, kind, kindly, love, pleasant, precious, sweetheart, sweetie, Sweeting, sweety, Truelove, Valentine, warm), gjë (article, item, job, line, object, piece, thing), foshnjë (babe, chit, infant, moppet). (various references) | |
Arabic | فتاة (babe, bird, bud, filly, gill, girl, lass, maid, nymph, pigeon, wench, young woman), ولد (bear, beget, born, boy, breed, bring forth, deliver, engender, fall, father, generate, germinate, give birth, infant, interpolate, junior, kid, lad, mother, originate, produce, see the light, sire, son, spawn), حبيب (darling, lover, sweetheart), تصرف كالأطفال, طفلة (child), طفل رضيع (babe), صغير (diminutive, infinitesimal, little, lower case, minuscule, minute, niggling, petty, remote, short, small, teeny, tiny, tiny bit, wee, young), إمرأة (dame, mouse, sister, woman), أطفالي, شخص (bloke, body, boy, cuss, customer, diagnose, effigy, embody, guy, individual, joker, man, person, personate, scout, sort, specimen, spirit, stick), دلل أو يعامل كالأطفال بعناة. (various references) | |
Asturian | rapacín. (various references) | |
Aymara | huahuita. (various references) | |
Basque | haurtxo. (various references) | |
Bemba | umwana. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | i'naksípokaa. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | малко на животно, бебешки (babyish), бебе (babe, infant, tenderling). (various references) | |
Cebuano | bata. (various references) | |
Chamorro | neni. (various references) | |
Chinese | 嬰兒 (infant), 嬰 (infant), 婴孩 (Babies), 寶貝 (cowry, darling, good-for-nothing or queer character, treasure, treasured object), 寶寶 (darling), 娃娃 (doll shaped as a baby), 娃 (doll). (various references) | |
Czech | nemluvnì (babe, infant), dítì (bairn, child, kid, kiddy, little one), dìvèe (colleen, girl, lass, lassie, maiden, wench). (various references) | |
Danish | spædbarn (breast-fed child, breast-fed infant, infant, suckling), baby. (various references) | |
Dutch | baby. (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | huahua. (various references) | |
Esperanto | bebo, infaneto. (various references) | |
Faeroese | pinkubarn. (various references) | |
Farsi | مانندکودک رفتارکردن , نوزاد (Babe, Bambino, Chick, Grub, Newborn), نوازش کردن (Coax, Coddle, Cuddle, Pat, Pet, Stroke), کودک (Babe, Child, Chit, Infant, Kid, Trot), طفل (Babe, Child, Infant, Peewee, Tyke), بچه (Bairn, Chick, Chicken, Child, Chit, Infant, Kid, Peewee, Tiddledywinks). (various references) | |
Finnish | vauva. (various references) | |
French | bébé (babe). (various references) | |
Frisian | poppe (doll, puppet). (various references) | |
German | Säugling (babe in arms, infant, nurseling, nursling, suckling), Baby (babe, infant, mandragora), Kleinkind (infant, small child, toddler), Kind (bairn, bambino, child, infant, kid, kiddy, offspring, sprog, sproglet, youngster). (various references) | |
Greek | μωρό (babe). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לפנק (cherish, coddle, fondle, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, pet, spoil, spoon feed), תינוק (babe, child, infant, moppet, nursling, suckling, tot), עולל (infant, nurseling, suckling). (various references) | |
Hungarian | baba (doll, dolly, poppet, puppet), kisbaba (babe, infant). (various references) | |
Icelandic | brjóstbarn, ungbarn, smábarn. (various references) | |
Indonesian | bayi (babe, infant), sayang (babe, darling, dear, kind, sweetie), orok. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | nutaralaaq. (various references) | |
Irish | babaí, leanbaí. (various references) | |
Italian | lattante (nursling, suckling, unweaned), bebè, bambino (babe, bairn, child, infant, kid, kiddy, youngling). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 稚児 (child, festivity page). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おさなご (infant, little child), ベビー , ぼぼ (doll, slang for cunt), あかご, あかんぼう, あかちゃん (infant), ようじ (child, cradle, infant, tasks, things to do, toothpick, using characters), みどりご (infant), ちのみご (nursing baby, suckling child, unweaned baby), ちご (child, page), えいじ (English letter, infant). (various references) | |
Kongo | ntwenia. (various references) | |
Korean | 아기 (BABE, Babies). (various references) | |
Macedonian | bebe. (various references) | |
Malay | baybi. (various references) | |
Manx | oikan (babe, infant, nurseling, tot, tot child), lhiannoo (child, family, infant), babban (babe, doll, lobe, tassel). (various references) | |
Maori | peepi. (various references) | |
Maya | chaam-bal. (various references) | |
Mohawk | owira. (various references) | |
Norwegian | spebarn. (various references) | |
Occitan | nene. (various references) | |
Papiamen | beibi, bebi. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abybay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bebê (babe). (various references) | |
Provencal | nene. (various references) | |
Romanian | sugaci (child, nurseling, sucker, suckling), pui (aerie, calf, chick, chicken, chuck, cub, dear, fledgeling, get, nestling, whelp, young), prunc (babe, child, innocent), plod (dandiprat, embryo, germ, seed), fatã frumoasã (Belle, fair, pint-up, pin-up girl), drãguţã (beloved, puss, sweetheart), de prunc, de copilaş, copilaş (babe, infant, kiddie, kiddy, kidling, piccaninny, tot), copil mic (infant), copil (babe, bairn, bantling, boy, brat, child, chip, descendant, imp, infant, kid, offspring, papoose, peter pan, son, urchin). (various references) | |
Romansch | pop. ( |
