babo

Babuza

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *babuy.

Noun

babo

1. (Favorlang) pig

References

• Ogawa, Naoyoshi (2003), “babo”, in English-Favorlang vocabulary, Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 143

Galician

Verb

babo

1. first-person singular present indicative of babar

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• babu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.bo/
• Rhymes: -bo, -o
• Hyphenation: ba‧bo

Etymology 1

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

Verb

babo

1. to carry in the front

Etymology 2

From Malay babu. From Javanese ꦧꦧꦸ (babu, “female servant”, literally “mother”), from Old Javanese babu (“mother; older servant”), wawuh (“familiar, acquainted”), probably ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer *(ʔ)boʔ (“mother”). Compare with Temiar buk (“mother”), Jehai baboʔ (“woman”), Vietnamese vợ (“wife”) and Mon ၝောံ (bɜ̀ʔ)).

Noun

babo (plural babo-babo)

1. dated spelling of babu (“housemaid”)

Further reading

• “babo”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Istriot

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian baba (“grandmother”), an allusion to grandmothers.

Adjective

babo

1. toothless

References

• Antonio Pellizzer; Giovanni Pellizzer (1992), Vocabulario del dialetto di Rovigno d'Istria, page 79
• Sandro Cergna (2015), Vocabolario del dialetto di Valle d'Istria, →ISBN, page 34

Kapampangan

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babaw, from Proto-Austronesian *babaw. Cognate with Paiwan vavaw (“up, above”), Kavalan babaw (“upper surface, upper part, top”), Cebuano babaw (“top”), Palauan bab (“area/space above, top, surface”), Māori waho (“outside”).

Noun

babo

1. surface; top

   Synonym: tas

Adjective

babo

1. upper

Adverb

babo

1. above

   Synonym: tas

Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bawbaw (“shallow”). Compare Tagalog babaw, Tetum fohon.

Noun

babo

1. shoal; shallow (place where water is shallow)

   Synonym: kababon

Mansaka

Noun

babo

1. aunt

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.bɔ/

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• Rhymes: -abɔ
• Syllabification: ba‧bo

Noun

babo f

1. vocative singular of baba

Portuguese

Verb

babo

1. first-person singular present indicative of babar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbabo]

Noun

babo f

1. vocative singular of babă

Sarawak Malay

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.bo/

Adjective

babo

1. (vulgar) senile (experiencing a decline in mental faculty due to old age)

   Mak cik kamek dah babo sikit sampe kekadang lupak makan.

   My aunt is now a bit senile that she forgets to eat sometimes.

2. (humorous, vulgar) forgetful

   Harap nya sik babo sampe lupak apa kau padah nya tadik.

   I hope he's not so forgetful that he forgets what you told him just now.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bǎːbo/
• Hyphenation: ba‧bo

Etymology 1

Derived from Turkish baba (“father, crime boss”).

Noun

bábo m anim (Cyrillic spelling ба́бо)

1. (chiefly Bosnia) father

Declension

Declension of babo

	singular	plural
nominative	bábo	babe
genitive	bábē	baba
dative	babi	babama
accusative	babu	babe
vocative	babo	babe
locative	babi	babama
instrumental	babom	babama

Descendants

• →? German: Babo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

babo (Cyrillic spelling бабо)

1. vocative singular of baba

Further reading

• Reković, Ibrahim (2013), Rječnik plavsko-gusinjskoga govora [Dictionary of the Plav-Gusinje dialect], Podgorica: Institut za crnogorski jezik i književnost, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 23