babachai
Macanese
Etymology
From babá + Cantonese 仔 (zai2).
Noun
babachai
Related terms
References
- https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#b
- Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “babachai”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page n63