ba

Borrowed from Old French baer (“to open the mouth”); compare French bayer.

ba (third-person singular simple present bas, present participle baing, simple past and past participle baed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To kiss.
   • Geoffrey Chaucer, The Tale of the Wyf of Bathe

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

Borrowed from Egyptian bꜣ,

ba (plural bas)

1. In ancient 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.
   • 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.

• -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. water (clear liquid H₂O)
2. water (mineral water)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaː/

ba

1. egg

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /ˈbaʔ/
• Rhymes: -aʔ

ba

1. final interrogative particle

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

Short for baba.

ba

1. to piggyback; to carry someone on the back

• IPA^(key): /ɓa/

-ba (infinitive kuba)

1. steal

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

• Nominal derivations:
  • wakuba (“thief”)

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

ba (Sette Comuni)

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

   dar faff ba de pridighet ― the priest who preaches

ba (dative bànnont)

1. (Sette Comuni, interrogative) where

   Ba pisto gabéest in gantzen tag?

   Where have you been all day?

ba (not comparable)

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

   Ba khalt! ― How cold!

• “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

Onomatopoeic?

ba

1. goat

• Duungooma ABC (alphabet duun), page 3

ba

1. water

• Dictionary of Eastern Penan

ba

1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰

ba

1. give

• ban
• bay

• IPA^(key): /bˠa/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /bˠɑh/[1]

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 and 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 and 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): /ba/

ba

1. bah!
2. oh well!

ba

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

ba

1. Alternative form of blanga

• با‎ (ba)

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

ba m

1. weather
2. wind

ba (Zhuyin ˙ㄅㄚ)

1. Pinyin transcription of 吧
2. Pinyin transcription of 罷, 罢
3. Pinyin transcription of 𣬶
4. Pinyin transcription of 𣬷

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.

• bad

ba

1. simple past of be

• (2nd sg. pres. subj.): be

ba

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

From Proto-Nguni *-ba, from Proto-Bantu *-báa.

-ba

1. to be
2. to become

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Nguni *-ba, from Proto-Bantu *-báa.

-ba

1. to be
2. to become

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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.

• IPA^(key): /ba/

ba

1. marks a sentence as interrogative

ba

1. (anatomy) mouth

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

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

ba (巴, 爸)

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 (巴, 𠀧)

1. three

ba (巴, 𠀧)

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

• tháng ba (“March”)
• thứ ba (“third; Tuesday”)

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.

ba

1. perhaps

From Proto-Nguni *-ba, 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

From Proto-Nguni *-ba, 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”