# babu
## English
### Alternative forms

* baboo (dated)

### Etymology

From Hindi बाबू (bābū).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɑːbuː/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

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

* babudom
* babu English
* babuism
* babuji

## Brunei Malay
### Etymology

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

### Noun

babu
* A mother.
    Synonym: mama
* An aunt.
* Term for any middle-aged or elderly woman.

## Bunun
### Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *babuy.

### Noun

babu
* pig (livestock)

## Indonesian
### Alternative forms

* babo (dated)
* baboe (dated)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbabu/
* Hyphenation: ba‧bu
* Rhymes: -bu, -u

### Noun

babu (plural babu-babu)
* housemaid

#### Derived terms

* memperbabu
* babu cuci
* babu dalam
* babu masak
* babu tetek

### See also

* jongos

### Further reading

* “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
### Etymology

From Hindi बाबू (bābū). Cognate to Önge babu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /babu/

### Noun

babu
* official, officer (of the Indian government of the Andamans)

### References

* Kumar, Pramod (2012) Descriptive and Typological Study of Jarawa (PhD). Jawaharlal Nehru University. Page 111, 141, 187.

## Javanese
### Romanization

babu
* Romanization of ꦧꦧꦸ

## Lower Sorbian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbabu]

### Noun

babu
* accusative/instrumental singular of baba

## Old Javanese
### Etymology

Unknown, probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *(ʔ)boʔ (“mother”) (compare Temiar buk (“mother”), Jehai baboʔ (“woman”), Vietnamese vợ (“wife”), and Mon ၝောံ (bɜ̀ʔ)).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ba.bu/
* Rhymes: -bu
* Hyphenation: ba‧bu

### Noun

babu
* mother
    Synonyms: babu, bibi, ibu, iduṅ, ina, inaṅ, induṅ, janmayoni, mātā, matuh, rena
* older servant

#### Derived terms

* mababu

#### Descendants

* > Javanese: ꦧꦧꦸ (babu) (inherited)
** → Dutch: baboe
** → Brunei Malay: babu
** → Malay: babu
*** Indonesian: babu
** → Peranakan Indonesian: babu
* → Balinese: ᬩᬩᬸ (babu)

### Further reading

* "babu" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

babu (Cyrillic spelling бабу)
* accusative singular of baba

## Shabo
### Adjective

babu
* two

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbabu]

### Noun

babu
* accusative singular of baba

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

babu class IX (plural babu class X)
* grandfather (from either side)

#### Coordinate terms

* bibi

## Tagalog
### Alternative forms

* vavu

### Etymology

A play on babay or English bye-bye.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /baˈbu/ [bɐˈbu]
* Rhymes: -u
* Syllabification: ba‧bu

### Interjection

babú (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜊᜓ)
* (slang) goodbye; ta ta
    Synonyms: paalam, babay

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈba.bu]

### Verb

babu (Jawi بابو)
* (intransitive) (of humans) to fall
    Synonym: doro (of non-humans)
    ngofa ibabu ― children fall
    ibabu toma kaha ― they fell on the ground
* (intransitive) to be overthrown

#### Conjugation
### References

* 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
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *papu. The initial b- was introduced by analogy with Russian боб (bob).

### Noun

babu
* bean

#### Inflection
### References

* Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “боб”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

## Yindjibarndi
### Noun

babu
* father