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Definition: Baba |
BabaNoun1. A small cake leavened with yeast. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "baba" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
Etymology: Baba \Ba"ba\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913) |
"Baba" is a common misspelling or typo for: babe, babes, baby. |
| 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 |
BABA | English | Bombardier Aerospace Business Aircraft | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Baba."
Crosswords: Baba |
| English words defined with "baba": Ali Baba ♦ baba au rhum ♦ open sesame ♦ rum baba. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "baba": lore ♦ Morgiana. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Baba" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (baby), Albanian (dad, daddy, father, pa, Papa, pater, paterfamilias, pop, Poppa, sire), Cebuano (mouth), Hawaiian (father), Hungarian (baby, doll, dolly, poppet, puppet), Indonesian (father, older man), Macedonian (grandmother), Papiamen (saliva, salivate), Portuguese (dribble, drivel, foam, lather, mucus, saliva, slaver, slobber), Serbo-Croatian (gammer, grandmother, old woman), Shona (father), Spanish (raft, slaver, slime, slobber, spittle), Swahili (father), Turkish (begetter, dad, daddy, father, goodman, governor, guv, guvnor, old man, pa, Papa, pater, Pere, pop, senior, sire, the governor, the old man), Turkmen (grandfather). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Hey, Ali Baba! Close Sesame! (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond) Make sure Ali Baba gets his babes. (Jake Speed; writing credit: Wayne Crawford; Andrew Lane) | |
Lyrics | Come on baba, you drive me crazy ("Great Balls of Fire"; performing artist: Jerry Lee Lewis) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Baba Yaga (1973) Le Amorose notti di Ali Baba (1973) Ali Baba kirk haramiler (1971) Baba (1971) Yuvana dön baba (1968) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Pakistan | Parents reportedly have given children as offerings to Baba Shah Dola, a shrine in Punjab where the children reportedly are deformed intentionally by clamping a metal form on the head that induces microcephalitis. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Macedonia | During the spring, NLA fighters used the St. Bogorodica Orthodox Church near Tetovo as a base and caused significant damage to it; the NLA also used the Arabati Baba Teke Dervish monastery near Tetovo as a base. (references) |
Gambia | On July 6, the NIA arrested Imam Baba Leigh of the Kanifing mosque for allegedly criticizing the Government; Imam Leigh preached against corruption and waste of public funds in unnecessary ceremonies during prayers. (references) | |
Human Rights | Guinea | Baba Sarr, a relative of reported mutiny ringleader Major Gbago Zoumanigui, remains missing since his detention following the mutiny. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LORE, n. Learning -- particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of occult books, or by nature. This latter is commonly designated as folk-lore and embraces popularly myths and superstitions. In Baring-Gould's Curious Myths of the Middle Ages the reader will find many of these traced backward, through various people son converging lines, toward a common origin in remote antiquity. Among these are the fables of "Teddy the Giant Killer," "The Sleeping John Sharp Williams," "Little Red Riding Hood and the Sugar Trust," "Beauty and the Brisbane," "The Seven Aldermen of Ephesus," "Rip Van Fairbanks," and so forth. The fable with Goethe so affectingly relates under the title of "The Erl- King" was known two thousand years ago in Greece as "The Demos and the Infant Industry." One of the most general and ancient of these myths is that Arabian tale of "Ali Baba and the Forty Rockefellers." |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Baba" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 93.18% of the time. "Baba" is used about 88 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 (proper) | 93.18% | 82 | 36,594 |
| Noun (singular) | 6.82% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 88 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "baba" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Baba | Last name | 300 | 29,350 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Pakistan | Baba Farid Sugar Mills Limited |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "baba": Ali Baba ♦ baba au rhum ♦ rum baba. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "baba": baba-ba. | |
Ending with "baba": Al-baba. | |
| 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 |
desi baba | 4,167 |
sai baba | 685 |
baba | 254 |
ali baba | 178 |
sathya sai baba | 147 |
baba desi story | 83 |
baba dass | 81 |
satya sai baba | 78 |
shirdi sai baba | 74 |
baba yaga | 61 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "baba"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 酵母'蛋糕. (various references) | |
Danish | Baba au rhum. (various references) | |
Dutch | baba. (various references) | |
Finnish | babaleivos. (various references) | |
French | baba. (various references) | |
German | Rum-Baba. (various references) | |
Greek | μπάμπα. (various references) | |
Italian | bab . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ababay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | baba (bave, cocoon filament, dribble, drivel, filament, foam, lather, mucus, saliva, slaver, slobber). (various references) | |
Russian | ромовый баба (baba au rhum). (various references) | |
Spanish | baba (bave, cocoon filament, filament, raft, slaver, slime, slobber, spittle). (various references) | |
Swedish | baba. (various references) | |
Ukranian | Тато (Papa). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "baba": babas, babassu, babassus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "baba" (pronounced bÄ"bu) |
| 3 | -Ä" b u | indaba. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: abba. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-b" | |
-1 letter: aba, baa. | |
-2 letters: aa, ab, ba. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-b" | |
+1 letter: abbas, babas, babka, kabab. | |
+2 letters: abbacy, babkas, balboa, baobab, barbal, kababs, sabbat. | |
+3 letters: babassu, babesia, babysat, balboas, baobabs, barbate, beanbag, cabbage, cabbala, cabomba, gabbard, gabbart, kabbala, sabbath, sabbats. | |
+4 letters: abatable, abbacies, abbatial, abusable, babassus, babesias, babirusa, babushka, backbeat, backstab, bailable, bankable, barbaric, barbasco, barbican, barbital, bareback, bareboat, barrable, baseball, beanbags, beanball, bearable, bearably, beatable, bilabial, blamable, blamably, boatable, cabbaged, cabbages, cabbalah, cabbalas, cabombas, gabbards, gabbarts, kabbalah, kabbalas, sabbaths, sabbatic, scabbard. | |
+5 letters: abdicable, abradable, absorbant, babirusas, babushkas, backbeats, backboard, backstabs, bafflegab, barbarian, barbarism, barbarity, barbarize, barbarous, barbascos, barbicans, barbitals, bareboats, baseballs, baseboard, beanballs, bilabials, bilabiate, blackball, breakable, broadband, cabbaging, cabbalahs, debatable, grandbaby, habitable, habitably, kabbalahs, labelable, rabbinate, sabbatics, scabbards. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 62 61 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- -... .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01100010 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a b a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0062 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36676867 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Frequency | 9. Names: Company Usage 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Abbreviations 14. Acronyms 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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