Baba Definition

noun
A leavened rum cake, usually made with raisins.
American Heritage

A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.

Wiktionary

(esp. among people of East European ancestry) A grandmother.

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An old woman, especially a traditional old woman from an eastern European culture.
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(esp. among people of Indian ancestry) A father.

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Other Word Forms of Baba

Noun

Singular:
baba
Plural:
babas

Origin of Baba

  • French baba baba (from Polish old woman, round Easter cake, from the cake's resemblance to a pleated skirt) au with the rhum rum

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • grandmother: many Slavic language (such as Bulgarian, Russian and Polish), Yiddish, Japanese

    From Wiktionary

  • father: Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Marathi, Hindi, Bengali, Persian, Swahili, Turkish, Yoruba

    From Wiktionary

  • baby: Afrikaans, Sinhala

    From Wiktionary

Baba Sentence Examples

  • At the end of the 18th century Baba Mahommed tried in vain to batter down the tomb with artillery.

  • In June 1893 Persia ceded to Russia the small but very fertile and strategically important district of Firuza and the adjacent lands between Baba Durmaz and Lutfabad on the northern frontier of Khorasan, and received in exchange the important village of Hissar and a strip of desert ground near Abbasabad on the frontier of Azerbaijan, which had become Russian territory in I 828, according to the Treaty of Turkmanchai.

  • The works of James Morier, especially his Adventures of Hajji Baba of .Tspahan, throw much light on Persian society in the early years of the 19th century.

  • The principal fish are the baba or cat-fish (clarias sp.) and the yellow-fish, both of which attain considerable size.

  • This position corresponds to the Jewish practice of reading the book at the feast of Pentecost; Spanish MSS., however, place it at the head of the Megilloth; and the Talmud (Baba Bathra, 14b) gives it the first place among all the Hagiographa.

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