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baba

1

[ bah-buh; French ba-ba ]

noun

plural babas
  1. a spongelike cake leavened with yeast and often containing raisins, baked in a small mold and then usually soaked with a rum syrup.
  2. Baba. (especially in Slavic or Eastern European cultures) an elderly woman or grandmother:

    In our house lived my parents, my baba鈥擥od rest her soul鈥攎y three siblings, and me.



baba

2
or 叠补路产补

[ bah-buh, bah-bah ]

noun

Indian English.
  1. father (also used as a polite term of address for any older man):

    That's the second lesson my Baba taught me growing up鈥攖hat consistent hard work is very important and always pays off.

  2. a male spiritual leader (also used as a title with the leader鈥檚 name):

    I devoured hundreds of religious books, including those by many Hindu babas and sadhus.

    She is a devout follower of Sai Baba, a spiritual leader known for his teachings of love, compassion, and selflessness.

  3. a baby or young child.

baba

/ baba; 藞b蓱藧b蓱藧 /

noun

  1. a small cake of leavened dough, sometimes mixed with currants and usually soaked in rum ( rum baba )
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of baba1

First recorded in 1820鈥30; from French, from Polish: literally, 鈥渙ld woman, peasant woman,鈥 a nursery term of imitative origin ( babushka ( def ), mama ( def ) ); the cake was introduced into France by the court of the exiled Polish king Stanislaus I

Origin of baba2

First recorded in 1765鈥75; from Hindi, Urdu 产腻产腻 鈥渇ather, male elder,鈥 a nursery term of imitative origin; dad 1( def ), papa ( def )
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of baba1

C19: from French, from Polish, literally: old woman
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Example Sentences

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"My baby called, come baba police is here, police come to our door," he says.

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Instead of making the baba ganoush, you could buy some, and by skipping those two steps, you鈥檝e saved a reasonable amount of time.

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"We are heartbroken and numb by this tragedy and the loss of our vibrant mother, baba and great baba," said the family of Helen Kufley.

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In the standard Mandarin spoken in China, for instance, baba 鈥 father 鈥 is pronounced with an emphasis on the first syllable, said Hongyin Tao, a professor of Chinese language and linguistics at UCLA.

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And while I enjoyed the fire show with the baba au rhum, the confection was so boozy, it was better suited for a glass than a plate.

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叠腻产baba au rhum