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. (in real estate ads) Abbreviation of bathroom.

   Alternative form: BA

   Coordinate term: br (“bedroom”)

   2 beds, 1 ba

From Mandarin 吧 (ba).

• bah

• (Singapore) IPA^(key): [p˭ɑ˨]

ba

1. (Manglish, Singlish) Used to indicate a tentative suggestion.

   I think you should go see a doctor ba.

2. (Manglish, Singlish) Used to indicate confident speculation.
   • 2024 June 7, Vegas, “Planning to get new Rims & Tyres”, in MyCarForum‎^[2], archived from the original on 21 June 2024:

     rich pple in here... 15" Conti for 800? thats a little steep... same class as ps4s? / 18" tires about 600 to 750 bah...

Discourse particles in colloquial Singaporean and Malaysian English
⟵ More assertiveLess assertive ⟶
Expressing objection	what	Characterizing	one1–3	Expressing inevitability	lor2–3	Expressing resignation	lor1	Expressing uncertainty	leh1–2
Explanatory	mah	Assertive	lah1–14	Intensifying	sia	Agreement-seeking	hor2	Confirmation-seeking	ah1–3, hah1–3
Expressing skepticism	meh	Declarative	leh3–6, hor1, know, nia	Speculative	ba2	Conveying tentativeness	leh7–11, ba1
Non-pragmatic
Aspect-marking					liao, already
References Gupta, A. F. (1992) “The pragmatic particles of Singapore colloquial English”, in Journal of Pragmatics, volume 18, number 1, →DOI

• -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. alternative form of blanga

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]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: 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] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “ba”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaː/

ba

1. egg

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

bâ

1. flood

• (Standard 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?

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

Short for baba.

ba

1. to piggyback; to carry someone on the back

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-jíba.

• IPA^(key): /ɓa/

-ba (infinitive kubá)

1. steal

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -bera
  • Causative: -betsa
  • Negative: -saba
  • Passive: -bedwa
  • Reduplicative: -baba
  • Repetitive: -banso
  • 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 surprise, 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

From Proto-Oceanic *baRa (cognates include Maori pā (“fortified village, blockade”) and Hawaiian pā (“wall”)) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baRa related to Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pager (“enclosure; palisade around a village; fence around a planted tree or cultivated field”) (compare with Malay pagar (“fence”)).

ba

1. a special fence or enclosure made from reeds to catch fish trapped during tides.

• Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “paa.1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
• Gatty, Ronald (2009) “ba”, in Fijian-English Dictionary, Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 10

Borrowed from English ba.

• IPA^(key): /ba/

• Audio:

  (file)

ba

1. (Egyptian mythology) ba

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

ba

1. (Pular) interrogative particle

   Si himo ka suudu ba, si o alaa ton ba.

   Whether he's at the house, or whether he's not there.

• Placed at the end of a phrase
• Implies an alternative

ba

1. (Maasina) not even

   ba nde wootere

   not even once

   ba gooto

   not even one

2. nothing
3. even

   Synonym: fay

   ba joonin

   even now

   ba naanen

   even a short while ago

• yalli

• Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
• Richard Smith, Urs Niggli, Dictionnaire fulfulde - anglais - français, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2016.

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

ba

1. or

ba (prepositional)

1. and, also, as well, too

   Ba myə gaə̂ sɔ'. ― I came also.

   Lwɔ̂' bə́ nə̂ bâwə́lə́. ― Each one has a shortcoming.

   Myə̂ mŋo' bâwə́lə̂ bə́ á nə́ é. ― Each one has shortcomings.

• Erika Eichholzer (editor) et al, Dictionnaire ghomala’ (2002)

ba

1. romanization of 𐌱𐌰

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

• IPA^(key): /ba/

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: -aʔ

ba

1. in

   ba Kuching

   in Kuching

2. at

   ba sungai

   at the river

3. on

   ba atas jalai

   on top of 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]
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /bˠɑ/^[2], /bˠa(h)/^[3], (Cois Fharraige) [bˠaː]^[4]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /bˠah/^[5]

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/, (before é, í, iad, ea) /bˠəj/
• (Munster, also) IPA^(key): /bˠɔ/^[6]

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. The hiragana syllable ば (ba) or the katakana syllable バ (ba) in Hepburn romanization.

ba class 5 (singular diba, plural maba)

1. palm tree

Uncertain.

ba

1. sun

ba

1. to know; to understand.

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

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ba (“for”).^[1]

bà

1. for

From English bar.

ba

1. (music) bar; measure

From French bas (“stocking”).

ba

1. stockings; socks
2. knitting

• Audio (Liaoning):

  (file)

ba (ba⁵ / ba⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄅㄚ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 吧, 罷 / 罢

ba

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

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without 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; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

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

     Come here, my spouse, let me kiss your cheeks!

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

• Audio:

  (file)

Central Kurdish	با (ba)
Zazaki	vay

ba m (Arabic spelling با)

1. weather
2. wind

• bad

ba

1. simple past of be

bā

1. neuter/feminine nominative/accusative singular of beġen

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 the 15th century.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /ba/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /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
   • Middle of the 15th century, Rozmyślanie o żywocie Pana Jezusa‎^[3], page 181:

     A ci... mąk nie wierzyli ani czci, ani dostojeństwa, ba i wstania przychodzącego sądu przeli (nam et resurrectionem mortuorum futuram negabant), mnimając, aby dusze po społu s ciały umirały

     [A ci... mąk nie wierzyli ani czci, ani dostojeństwa, ba i wstania przychodzącego sądu przeli (nam et resurrectionem mortuorum futuram negabant), mnimając, aby dusze pospołu z ciały umirały]

2. transition particle; well, well then
   • Middle of the 15th century, Rozmyślanie o żywocie Pana Jezusa‎^[4], page 731:

     Drugi potem przybieżąc uderzył ji w ciemię i rzekł: O Jesusie, snadź ci mirzka w [o]czu, ba pokrzep sie im, dobry druże; takeś omdlał, jakoby nie miał boga ojca, ba pochwaci sie, ale nie daj sie sromocić

     [Drugi[m] potem przybieżąc uderzył ji w ciemię i rzekł: "O Jesusie, snadź ci mirzka w [o]czu, ba, pokrzep sie im, dobry druże! Takeś omdlał, jako by nie miał Boga Ojca. Ba, pochwaci sie, ale nie daj sie sromocić!"]

• Polish: ba
• Silesian: ba

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “ba”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• Mańczak, Witold (2017) “ba”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
• Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “ba”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “ba”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Compare with Yoruba bàbá, Ekiti Yoruba àbá, Ekiti Yoruba bà, Ondo Yoruba bàí, Yoruba ụba, Owo Yoruba iba

• IPA^(key): /bā/

ba

1. father; old man or elder

• yé (“mother”)

• bá bá (“grandfather”)
• ba ba mì líla (“(my) great-grandfather”)
• énẹ́bá (“fatherlessness”)

(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')

• Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “ba”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[5], 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.

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ba
• Homophone: -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!”

3. denotes disappointment; bah
4. (obsolete) that's easy to say
5. (obsolete, repeated) well, well
6. (obsolete) that's another thing
7. (Middle Polish) used to urge a command.

   Synonym: no

8. (Masuria, Ostróda, Warmia) Introduces a continued statement; well, so
9. (Masuria, Ostróda, Warmia) Used to answer a question; well
10. (Masuria, Ostróda, Warmia) Used to respond to a request; unfortunately
11. (Masuria, Ostróda, Warmia) Adds to a statement furthermore

ba

1. (Masuria, Ostróda, Warmia) Denotes surprise; there you have it!

ba

1. (Masuria, Ostróda, Warmia, contrastive) but; just

• ba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ba in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “ba”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• 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
• Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2024) “ba”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur, volume 1, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, page 137

• 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 (1996) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano [Romagnol-Italian dictionary] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, page 51
• Ercolani, Libero (1971) Vocabolario Romagnolo-Italiano, Monte di Ravenna, page 33

From Proto-Bantu *-jíba.

-bá (infinitive kubá)

1. to steal

Inherited from Old Polish ba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈba/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ba

ba

1. Expresses negation or disagreement; obviously not

• Aleksandra Wencel (2023) “ba”, in Dykcjůnôrz ślų̊sko-polski, page 32

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.

• ba'

Apocopic form of bara.

• IPA^(key): /bɑː/, /bɑ/

ba (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) pronunciation spelling of bara ("just, only")

   Asså allt ba spåra' [spårade] direkt

   Y'know everything just went crazy the second it started

   Ba gört [gör det]!

   Just do it!

   • 2019, Veronica Maggio, "Tillfälligheter" (song), Fiender är tråkigt (album)

     Klockan är tre så ba säg vad du heter.

     It's three o'clock so just tell me your name.

• tjabba

ba (preterite ba)

1. (colloquial, defective) Used colloquially to indicate speech or action. Compare English be like, like.

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

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

   Han ba, hon ba, ja [jag] ba!

   He like ..., she like ..., I was like ...! [implying something sexual, sometimes with accompanying gestures (though clear enough anyway) – widespread joke]

Only used in the preterite (past) and infinitive forms.

• AB, Ab

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

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ba/ [bɐ]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ba

ba (Baybayin spelling ᜊ)

1. marks a sentence as interrogative

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

   Mayroon ka bang pera?

   Do you have money?

• The particle sometimes disappears in informal contexts and the sentence can be inferred as interrogative depending on the tone of the speaker.

  Mayroon kang pera?

  You have money?

Influenced by Baybayin character ᜊ (ba).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ba/ [bɐ]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ba

ba (Baybayin spelling ᜊ)

1. the name of the Latin-script letter B/b, in the Abakada alphabet

   Synonyms: (in the Filipino alphabet) bi, (in the Abecedario) be

• baba

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ba/ [bɐ]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ba

ba (Baybayin spelling ᜊ)

1. clipping of aba

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbaʔ/ [ˈbaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: ba

bâ (Baybayin spelling ᜊ)

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

   Synonyms: ga, bulaga

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbaʔ/ [ˈbaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: ba

bâ (Baybayin spelling ᜊ)

1. clipping of amba

• “ba”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*ba₅”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [ɓaː˧˧]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [ɓaː˦˥]

ba

1. to be (horizontally) spread out

   xu ba ― big ear

• Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[6][7] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên

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ba

1. to go

• Fransiskus Monteiro (1985) Kamus Tetun-Indonesia [Tetum-Indonesian Dictionary] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan

ba

1. (anatomy) mouth

From Proto-Bantu *-báa.

ba

1. to be
2. to become

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˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaː˧˧]

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Attested quite late in Vietnamese literature. Likely a loan from some variety of Chinese 爸 (bà) (if so distantly related to bố). The resemblance to French papa is probably coincidental.

In Đại Nam quấc âm tự vị (1895), the imitative ba ba was annotated as [t]iếng con nít hay kêu ("a word that children often use"), while glossed as cha, the chief and/or formal word for "father".

ba

1. (chiefly Southern Vietnam) father

   Synonyms: áng, bác, bọ, bố, cậu, cha, thầy, tía

Vietnamese numbers ^(edit)

	30
←  2	3	4  →
Cardinal: ba     Ordinal: thứ ba

From Proto-Vietic *paː, from Proto-Austroasiatic *peːʔ (“three”). Cognate with Muong pa, Khmer បី (bəy), Halang pe, Pacoh pe, Mon ပိ, Santali ᱯᱮ (pe).

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
   • 1931, Arie de Jong, Gramat Volapüka, § 256:

     Sevol-li ba? kiöpo (kitopo) söl : R. lödom.

     Do you perhaps know where Mr. R. lives?

   • 1946, “Nuns”, in Volapükagased pro Nedänapükans, page 34:

     Söl: ‚Tarnow’ äbinom konletan zilik dinas valik teföl valemapükis valasotik. Bukem valemapükik omik, kel äbinon ba gretikün un Deutän, ye pedistukon ti löliko.

     Mr. Tarnow was an industrious collector of all things in the field of world languages of all kinds. His library about world languages, which was perhaps the largest in Germany, has, however, been almost completely destroyed.

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^[8], Pacific linguistics

1. IPA^(key): [ba]^[1]

ba

1. and^[2][1]

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

• b', bee, be

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

• IPA^(key): /bə/, /b/, /biː/
• Homophone: bye

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

1. be
   • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 100:

     A laafe ing lemethès chote wel ta ba zang,

     A leaf in tatters, I know well to be sung,

2. is
3. are
4. been

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, 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

4. to perch

   Lékeléke bà mí lékè, ẹyẹ àdàbà bà mí lékè ― An egret perched on me, a dove perched on me

5. to braid; to plait

   Synonym: dì

• ba before a direct object

• ìbà
• dẹ́rù bà (“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)‎^[9] (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”