# bab
## English
### Etymology

Clipping of babby (“baby”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bæb/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -æb

### Noun

bab (plural babs)
* (UK, informal) Baby
* (fishing, East Anglia) A bait for eels, consisting of a bundle of live worms.
** 2006 February 1, John Meiklejohn, “Babbing for eels”, in BBC - WW2 People's War‎:The worms were threaded onto the yarn until we had 4 or 5 feet of big juicy worms threaded through. We would coil it all up and put an old rusty nut at the centre and tie it on a bit of string on an old ash pole — this was the bab.

#### Synonyms

* (baby): see Thesaurus:baby
* (bait): clod

#### Derived terms

* babber

### Verb

bab (third-person singular simple present babs, present participle babbing, simple past and past participle babbed)
* (intransitive, fishing, East Anglia) To fish for eels using a bab.
** 1884, George Christopher Davies, Norfolk Broads and Rivers, W. Blackwood and sons, page 244:The babbers follow the eels, and you may see fifteen boats as close together as possible, babbing away, and catching as much as four stone-weight of eels per boat of a night.
** 1948, William Guy, Mostly Memories: Some Digressions, C. J. Cousland, page 24:Sometimes we trolled or set liggers for pike, we seldom babbed for eels, it was such a slimy job.
** 2006 February 1, John Meiklejohn, “Babbing for eels”, in BBC - WW2 People's War‎:Another classic example was babbing for eels; he would come along and say — ‘Goodnight for babbing, make you some babs’.

### Anagrams

* B.B.A., BBA, abb, abb.

## Haitian Creole
### Alternative forms

* labab

### Etymology

From French barbe.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bab/

### Noun

bab
* beard, whiskers

#### Derived terms

* bab kabrit (“goatee”)
* bab pou bab (“face to face”)

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From a Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian bob, Slovak bôb, Russian боб (bob, “bean”), from Proto-Slavic *bobъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbɒb]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒb

### Noun

bab (usually uncountable, plural babok)
* bean
    Synonyms: (regional) fuszulyka, (regional) paszuly, (obsolete; today “peas”) borsó

#### Derived terms

* babos
* babérc
* babfőzelék
* babgulyás
* babkaró
* babkávé
* bableves
* babliszt
* babszalma
* babszem
* babzsák
* bokorbab
* csicseribab
* farkasbab
* futóbab
* gyalogbab
* juliskabab
* kakaóbab
* karósbab
* kávébab
* kifejtőbab
* lóbab
* májbab
* szárazbab
* szójabab
* tarkabab
* törökbab
* vajbab
* zöldbab

### Further reading

* bab in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* bab in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Malay bab, from Arabic بَاب (bāb).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bab/, [ˈbap̚]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -bap, -ap, -p
* Hyphenation: bab

### Noun

bab (plural bab-bab)
* chapter (of a book)
* door, gate
    Synonyms: gapura, pintu
* case, matter
    Synonyms: hal, masalah

### Further reading

* “bab” 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.

## Irish
### Noun

bab m (genitive singular bab, nominative plural babanna)
* Alternative form of bob (“bob; fringe”)

### Noun

bab m (genitive singular bab, nominative plural babanna)
* Alternative form of bob (“stump, target”)

#### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
bab
babanna
vocative
a bhab
a bhabanna
genitive
bab
babanna
dative
bab
babanna
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an bab
na babanna
genitive
an bhab
na mbabanna
dative
leis an mbab don bhab
leis na babanna :

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bab”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Juba Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic بَاب (bāb).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbab/, [ˈbab]

### Noun

bab
* door

### References

* Ian Smith, Morris Timothy Ama (1985) A Dictionary of Juba Arabic & English‎, 1st edition, Juba: The Committee of The Juba Cheshire Home and Centre for Handicapped Children, page 41

## Malay
### Etymology

From Arabic بَاب (bāb).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bap/
* Rhymes: -bap, -ap

### Noun

bab (Jawi spelling باب, plural bab-bab, informal 1st possessive babku, 2nd possessive babmu, 3rd possessive babnya)
* chapter (section in a book)

### Further reading

* “bab” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Meriam
### Noun

bab
* father or paternal uncle

## Middle English
### Noun

bab
* Alternative form of babe

## Northern Kurdish
### Alternative forms

* bav

### Noun

bab m
* father

## Palauan
### Etymology

From Pre-Palauan *babo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babaw, from Proto-Austronesian *babaw.

### Adjective

bab
* above, top

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbap/
* Rhymes: -ap
* Syllabification: bab

### Noun

bab f
* genitive plural of baba

## Rohingya
### Alternative forms

* 𐴁𐴝𐴁𐴢 (bab) — Hanifi Rohingya script

### Etymology

From Sanskrit वप्र (vapra). Cognate with Sylheti ꠛꠣꠙ (baf), Assamese বাপ (bap), Bengali বাপ (bap), Hindi बाप (bāp).

### Noun

bab (Hanifi spelling 𐴁𐴝𐴁𐴢)
* father
    Synonym: baf

## Romagnol
### Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

### Pronunciation

   * (Central Romagnol): IPA: [ˈbaɐ̯b]

### Noun

bab m (plural bëb)
* Alternative form of ba
** 1920, Olindo Guerrini, edited by Zanichelli, Sonetti romagnoli, published 1967:Allora e' babb d' sta bela zuvintòAnd then the father of this beautiful youth

### References

* Masotti, Adelmo (1996) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano [Romagnol-Italian dictionary] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, page 51

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* bap (Puter, Vallader)

### Etymology

From Late Latin *babbus. Compare Sardinian babbu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [baːp]

### Noun

bab m (plural babs)
* (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) father

#### Coordinate terms

* mamma

#### See also

* pader (term to address a priest or monk)

## Scots
### Etymology 1

Compare bob, likely cognate of English bob, from Middle English bobben (“to strike, to shake”).

#### Verb

bab (third-person singular simple present babs, present participle babbin, simple past bab'd, past participle bab'd)
* synonym of bob (“to move up and down”)
* to dance, to hop
** 1733, Allan Ramsay, “Christ’s Kirk on the Green”, in Poems by Allan Ramsay‎, page 52:The lasses bab’d about the reel / Gar’d a’ their hurdies wallopThe girls danced around the ring / Making their bottoms gallop

### Etymology 2

From older Scots bob; compare Middle English bobbe (“cluster of fruit; spray of leaves”).

#### Noun

bab (plural babs)
* nosegay, a bunch of flowers; a tassel, a bunch of ribbons
* (in compounds) something fine, something decorated
    wooer bab ― a garter tied below the knee
* a lump, dollop
* (figuratively) a lumpish person, an idiot

### Etymology 3

From Northern Middle English bab, a variant of babe.

#### Noun

bab (plural babs)
* (obsolete) a babe, baby

### References

* “bab, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
* “bobben v.$^1$”, in Middle English Compendium, 2019 November
* “bab, n.$^1$”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
* “bob, n.$^1$”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
* “bob, n.$^1$.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
* “bobbe”, in Middle English Compendium, 2019 November
* “bab, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pap/

### Noun

bab m (genitive singular baba, plural baban or babannan)
* tuft, tassel
* child's excrement (hence abab)
* stain
    Bithidh sin 'n a bhab air fhad 's is beò e.That will be a stain on him as long as he lives.

#### Related terms

* abab

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Edward Dwelly (1911) “bab”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
* MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baːb/

### Noun

bab
* Soft mutation of pab.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Zazaki
### Noun

bab m
* father (sort form)