ba

ba

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Bashkir.

Borrowed from Egyptian bꜣ,

ba (plural bas)

1. (Egyptian mythology) A being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 220:

     Any ordinary person who has ever floated out of his body during a nap knows what a Ba is, but unfortunately the dogmas of our materialistic culture constrain the person to ignore and repress his experience.

   • 1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings:

     But the Ba, I remembered, could be seen as the mistress of your heart and might or might not decide to speak to you, just as the heart cannot always forgive.

The sound is very commonly made by infants, and is interpreted by parents as a reference to themselves.

ba (plural bas) (not generally used in the plural)

1. (colloquial and in direct address) Father, baba.

• ba'

ba (uncountable)

1. (historical) A medieval football game played in parts of Scotland around Christmas and New Year.
   • 2011, Alistair Moffat, The Borders:

     The townsmen played ba often and clearly knew what they were doing.

ba (plural bas)

1. Abbreviation of bathroom.

   2 beds, 1 ba

Commonly found in apartment listings.

• -ab, A&B, A.B., A/B, AB, Ab, a.b., ab, ab-, ab.

ba

1. (Fante) come

• Rose-Juliet Anyanwu, Fundamentals of Phonetics, Phonology and Tonology (2008)

ba

1. (Mpakwithi) island

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 184

ba

1. water (clear liquid H₂O)
2. water (mineral water)

ba

1. mother

• bamuso
• ma

bà

1. goat

bá

1. river, stream, lake

bà

1. one thousand

• waa

• IPA^(key): /ba/, [ba]

ba

1. Alternative form of ba-

   Ba al zatoz? ― Are you coming?

   Ba ote al dago inor etxean? ― Is anyone home?

   Ba omen zegoen bidea ezagutzen zuen norbait. ― There was someone who knew the way.

See usage notes at ba-.

Clipping of bada (“it is”)

ba

1. so, then, well

   Ez nizun ba esan. ― Well, I didn't tell you.

Clipping of bai (“yes”).

ba

1. (Northern) yes

Probably from Spanish bah.

ba

1. Indicates disdain or unbelief.

• "ba" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
• “ba” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaː/

ba

1. egg

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahaq, from Proto-Austronesian *baSaq.

bâ

1. flood

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /ˈba/
• Rhymes: -a

ba

1. interrogative particle

   Kini ba ang Kabisay-an? ― Is this the Visayas?

   Kamao ka ba molangoy? ― Do you know how to swim?

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /ˈbaː/
• Rhymes: -a

Short for baba.

ba

1. to piggyback; to carry someone on the back

From Proto-Bantu *-jíba.

• IPA^(key): /ɓa/

-ba (infinitive kubá)

1. steal

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -bera
  • Other formations: -ba mawu (“eavesdrop”)

• Nominal derivations:
  • wakuba (“thief”)

ba

1. Alternative spelling of ba'

• bo

From Middle High German wā, from Old High German wār, hwār, from Proto-West Germanic *hwār, from Proto-Germanic *hwar (“where”). Cognate with German wo, English where.

ba

1. (Sette Comuni, relative) that; which; who

   dar faff ba de pridighet ― the priest who preaches

ba (dative bannont)

1. (Sette Comuni, interrogative) where

   Ba pisto gabéest in gantzen tag?

   Where have you been all day?

ba

1. (Sette Comuni, attributive only) how (modifier used to express suprise, delight, etc.)

   Ba khalt! ― How cold!

• éppadabaa

• “ba” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

ba (plural banima)

1. father
2. a title of respect

• obligatorily possessed: includes father's brothers, and in the plural all relatives on the father's side, particularly those of his generation.

• ma

ba

1. Third-person, animate, singular, neutral, object pronoun them

• bɛ
• o
• ban
• bana

Cognate with Vai [script needed] (ba), Mende wa.

ba

1. big

• Dalby, T. D. P. (1963), “The extinct language of Dama”, in Sierra Leone Language Review, volume 2, Freetown: Fourah Bay College, pages 50–54

Onomatopoeic?

ba

1. goat

• Duungooma ABC (alphabet duun), page 3

ba

1. water

• Dictionary of Eastern Penan

Borrowed from English ba.

• IPA^(key): /ba/

• Audio

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ba

1. (Egyptian mythology) ba

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

ba

1. question-forming interrogative particle (expressing doubt)

Probably from Bengali বা (ba), which is a short form of কিংবা (kiṅba).

ba

1. or

ba

1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰

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

ba

1. give

• ban
• bay

• (Standard Hlai, Baoding) IPA^(key): /pa˥˧/

From Proto-Hlai *hmaː (“five”), from Pre-Hlai *maː (Norquest, 2015).

ba

1. five

From Proto-Hlai *hmaː (“dog; hunting dog”), from Pre-Hlai *maː (Norquest, 2015). Compare Proto-Tai *ʰmaːᴬ (“dog”) (whence Thai หมา (mǎa)).

ba

1. dog, hunting dog

• IPA^(key): [baʔ]
• Rhymes: -ba, -a

ba

1. in

   ba Kuching

   in Kuching

2. at

   ba sungai

   at the river

3. on

   ba atas jalai

   on the road

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahaq, from Proto-Austronesian *baSaq.

bâ

1. flood

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /bˠɑ(h)/[1]
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /bˠɑ/
• (Connemara, Mayo) IPA^(key): /bˠa/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /bˠah/[2]

ba f pl

1. plural of bó

   Tá na ba sa mhá. ― The cows are in the field.

From Old Irish ba.

• (affirmative): b’ (used before a vowel sound except for the pronouns é, í, iad, ea)
• (relative): ab (used before a vowel sound)
• badh (archaic)
• budh (superseded)
• dob, dob' (dialectal equivalent of b’)

• IPA^(key): /bˠə/

ba (triggers lenition)

1. past/conditional affirmative of is

   Ba é Dónall an múinteoir. ― Dónall was the teacher.

   Ba mhaith liom cupán tae. ― I would like a cup of tea.

2. past/conditional direct relative of is (used to introduce the comparative/superlative form of adjectives)

   fear ba shine ná m'athair ― a man (who was) older than my father

• IPA^(key): /ˈba/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: bà

ba

1. bah!
2. oh well!

• ab-

ba

1. Rōmaji transcription of ば
2. Rōmaji transcription of バ

ba

1. Alternative form of blanga

Uncertain.

ba

1. sun

ba

1. to know; to understand.

• Dr. Ola Hanson, A Dictionary of the Kachin Language (1906).

From English bar.

ba

1. (music) bar; measure

From French bas (“stocking”).

ba

1. stockings; socks
2. knitting

• Audio (Liaoning)

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ba (ba⁵ / ba⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄅㄚ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 吧, 罷／罢, 罢.

ba

1. Nonstandard spelling of bā.
2. Nonstandard spelling of bá.
3. Nonstandard spelling of bǎ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of bà.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Form of *bān, from (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

bā

1. Imperative form of of *bān (“to kiss”)
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wyfe of Bathes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868:

     Com neer, my spouse, lat me ba thy cheke!

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahaq, from Proto-Austronesian *baSaq.

bâ

1. flood

ba

1. in, at, on (general preposition for locative adjuncts)

• Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 22–23.

From Proto-Iranian *HwáHatah (“wind”) (compare Avestan 𐬬𐬁𐬙𐬋‎ (vātō), Pashto and Persian باد‎ (bâd)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HwáHatas (“wind”) (compare Sanskrit वात (vā́ta)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts (“blowing”), present participle of *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).

• IPA^(key): /bɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː

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ba m (Arabic spelling با‎)

1. weather
2. wind

• bad

ba

1. simple past of be

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (2nd sg. pres. subj.): be

• IPA^(key): [ba]

ba

1. inflection of is:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. third-person singular preterite/imperfect indicative nonrelative/relative

• IPA^(key): [va(ː)]

ba

1. Alternative form of fa (“or”)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ba. First attested in 1414.

ba

1. nay, or rather, or should I say, moreover, hell used to say that what has been said thus far is true, but could be said more accurately
2. Transition particle; well, well then

• Polish: ba

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “ba”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

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

• IPA^(key): /ba/

ba (discourse, Perso-Arabic spelling بہ)

1. Marker with a (switch-)topic function (variously corresponding to 'and, however, instead, as for, but')

• Liljegren, Henrik; Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎, Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

From Proto-Bantu *-báa.

-ba

1. to be
2. to become

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Inherited from Old Polish ba, from Proto-Slavic *ba. First attested in 1414.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ba/

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• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ba

ba

1. nay, or rather, or should I say, moreover, hell used to say that what has been said thus far is true, but could be said more accurately

   Synonyms: mało tego, więcej

   To danie jest dobre, ba, przepyszne. ― This dish is good, nay, delicious!

2. duh, obviously used when the speaker believes what has been said is obvious

   "On jest trochę głupi, co?" "Ba!" ― "He's a little dumb, isn't he?" "Duh".

• ba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ba in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “ba”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish], 2010-2022
• Barbara Rykiel-Kempf (19.01.2017), “BA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807-1814), “ba”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “ba”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “ba”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 77

• bab

From Latin *babbus (“dad”), of Onomatopoeic origin.

• (Central Romagnol): IPA^(key): [ˈbaɐ̯]

ba m (plural bëb)

1. father, dad

   Ba ’d famèja ― Paterfamilias

• Masotti, Adelmo (1999) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano (in Italian), Zanichelli
• Ercolani, Libero (1971) Vocabolario Romagnolo-Italiano, Monte di Ravenna, page 33

From Proto-Bantu *-jíba.

-bá (infinitive kubá)

1. to steal

ba

1. Alternative form of va

ba

1. Romanization of 𒁀 (ba)

From Proto-Bantu *-báa.

-ba

1. to be
2. to become

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• IPA^(key): /bɑː/

ba (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) Apocopic form of bara, corresponds to ”was (just) like” or ”just”.

   Ja ba: ”Vafan är det!” o han ba: ”Ingen aning!”.

   I was (just) like: ”Wtf is that!” and he was (just) like ”No idea!”.

   Asså allt ba spåra' direkt.

   Y'know everything just went crazy the second it started.

• AB, Ab

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ba₅, or shortened form of baga. Cognate with Cebuano ba and Malagasy va.

• IPA^(key): /ba/, [bɐ]

ba

1. marks a sentence as interrogative

   Synonyms: (dialectal) ga, (dialectal) baga, (obsolete) kaya

   Mayroon ka bang pera?

   Do you have money?

Clipping of aba.

• IPA^(key): /ba/, [bɐ]

ba

1. used in expressing surprise or disgust

Clipping of bulaga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaʔ/, [ˈbaʔ]

bâ

1. boo (used in play-scare with babies)

   Synonym: ga

• IPA^(key): /ba/, [bɐ]

ba

1. The name of the Latin-script letter B.

ba

1. (anatomy) mouth

From Proto-Oceanic *bʷa, possibly from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *ba.

• IPA^(key): /ba/

ba

1. to not be

   Synonym: bali

• Terry Crowley et al, The Oceanic Languages (2013), page 374

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaː˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaː˧˧]

• Audio (Hồ Chí Minh City)

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Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 爸 (“father”, SV: bả).

ba

1. (chiefly Southern Vietnam) father

• áng; bác; bọ; bố; cậu; cha; thầy; tía

From Proto-Vietic *paː, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *piʔ; cognate with Muong pa, Khmer បី (bəy), Halang pe, Pacoh pe, Mon ပိ (pi).

ba • (𠀧, 巴)

1. three

ba • (𠀧, 巴)

1. (Southern Vietnam, of a sibling) secondborn

   anh/chị ba ― second eldest brother/sister

   bác ba ― second eldest brother/sister of one's parent

   chú ba ― secondborn younger brother of one's father

ba

1. (colloquial) some, an indefinite quantity greater than one

   Ba cái đó chả đáng quan tâm.

   There's no need to be concerned about those.

Sino-Vietnamese word from 波.

ba

1. (only in compounds) wave; ripple

• sóng

ba

1. perhaps

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahaq, from Proto-Austronesian *baSaq.

bâ

1. flood

• IPA^(key): /ba/

ba

1. the vagina

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

From Proto-Bantu *-báa.

-ba

1. to be
2. to become

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

ba

1. (auxiliary) to be (doing something); forms the present tense

• bee, be, b'

From Middle English been, from Old English bēon, from Proto-West Germanic *beun.

ba (inflected forms aam, yarth, ez, beeth, bin, waz, wasth, war)

1. be, been
2. are

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 24

• IPA^(key): /bà/

bà

1. to ferment

   kòkó ti bà ― The cocoa seeds have fermented

2. to carry out the process of fermentation on seeds or plants

• ba before a direct object

• ìbà (“act of fermenting”)
• ìdíbá-nǹkan (“fermentation”)

• IPA^(key): /bà/

bà

1. (horticulture) to plant seeds in prepared pots for future transplanting into a farm (when it becomes an established seedling)

   ba òrom̀bó ― To plant lemon seeds for future transplanting

• ba before a direct object

• ìbà

• IPA^(key): /bà/

bà

1. to press a wound; to apply a warm compress on a wound

   Synonym: mọ́

   ba ojú egbò ― To apply a warm compress to a wound

• ba before a direct object

• ìbà

• IPA^(key): /bà/

bà

1. to hit (with an impact)

   ọfà á bà wọ́n ― The arrow hit them

2. to be overcome with fear (literally, to be hit with fear)

   ẹ̀rú bà wá ― Fear overcame us

3. (usually used with ilẹ̀) to be too long or oversized (to hit the ground)

   agbádá yìí bà mí nílẹ̀ ― The agbada was too big for me

• ba before a direct object

• ìbà
• dẹ́rùbà (“to scare”)
• bẹ̀rù (“to fear”)
• ìbẹ̀rù (“fear”)

• IPA^(key): /ba/

ba

1. arm

• Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad

Cognate with Yatzachi Zapotec ba.

• IPA^(key): /ba˦/

ba

1. hot weather (clarification of this definition is needed)

• chex̱ba
• gwba
• lagüeꞌ ba

Cognate with Isthmus Zapotec baꞌ, Yatzachi Zapotec ba.

• IPA^(key): /ba˩/

ba

1. grave, tomb

Cognate with Yatzachi Zapotec ba-.

ba

1. already

• Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)‎ (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 3

• IPA^(key): /ba˧/

ba

1. (transitive) to owe

• IPA^(key): /ba˧˩/

bà

1. bat (mammal)

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, pages 44, 45

From Proto-Bantu *-báa.

-ba

1. to be
2. to become

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “-ɓa”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “-ɓa”