babad

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *bábad.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbabad/ [ˈba.bad̪]
• IPA^(key): /baˈbad/ [baˈbad̪]
• Hyphenation: ba‧bad

bábad or babád (Basahan spelling ᜊᜊᜇ᜔)

1. soak

   Synonyms: humom, huom

• Hyphenation: ba‧bad

babad

1. a coconut palm frond used as a torch

babad

1. headache

From Javanese ꦧꦧꦢ꧀ (babad, “history, chronicle”), from Old Javanese *babad:

• babad (“to clear”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bajbaj, from Proto-Austronesian *bajbaj (“loosen, untie, unwrap; unravel; to clear forest”), *-baj (“unravel, untie”). Doublet of babat.
• wwat (“to report”, literally “to present, offer”). Doublet of buat.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbabat̚/

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• Hyphenation: ba‧bad
• Homophone: babat
• Rhymes: -bat, -at, -t

babad (plural babad-babad)

1. chronicle, annal, historical account
   1. (literature) Javanese, Sundanese, Balinese, Sasak, and Madurese stories containing historical events

• “babad” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

babad

1. romanization of ꦧꦧꦢ꧀

babad (Jawi spelling بابد, plural babad-babad)

1. history; chronicle

• “babad” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

babad

1. descendant

babad

1. to multiply

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bajbaj, from Proto-Austronesian *bajbaj (“loosen, untie, unwrap; unravel; to clear forest”), *-baj (“unravel, untie”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.bat/
• Rhymes: -bat
• Hyphenation: ba‧bad

babad

1. clearing

babad

1. to clear land

• > Javanese: ꦧꦧꦢ꧀ (babad) (inherited)

• "babad" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Cognate with Northern Tepehuan babáádai, Classical Nahuatl cueyatl.

babad

1. frog, toad

• Saxton, Dean, Saxton, Lucille, Enos, Susie (1983) Dictionary: Tohono Oʼodham/Pima to English, English to Tohono Oʼodham/Pima, second edition, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press

• babar — dialectal, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon, informal

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *bábad.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈbabad/ [ˈbaː.bɐd̪̚] (noun)
    • Rhymes: -abad
  • IPA^(key): /baˈbad/ [bɐˈbad̪̚] (adjective)
    • Rhymes: -ad
• Syllabification: ba‧bad

babad (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜊᜇ᜔)

1. soak; soaking (in liquid)

   Synonyms: tigmak, mamad

2. prolonged stay in water (in bathing)
3. (cooking) marination
4. (figurative) bad habit of a person (especially of a gambler, etc.)

babád (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜊᜇ᜔)

1. thoroughly soaked; saturated (in liquid)
2. (figurative) immersed in a bad habit

• “babad”, in Pinoy Dictionary, 2010–2025