babai

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman, female”).

babai

1. woman

• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

• IPA^(key): /baˈbai/, [bäˈbäj]

babai

1. definite nominative singular of baba

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman, female”).

babāi

1. woman
   • 2005, Manuel B. Dulawan, Oral Literature of the Ifugao, page 64:

     Mabigat ya nakammodwong nan' babai.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• ABVD
• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (as ba-bāi)

• fafái

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman, female”).

babái

1. woman, girl
   • 1970, Lawrence Andrew Reid, Central Bontoc: Sentence, Paragraph, and Discourse, SIL:

     Kanan nan aman nan babai en, ...
     said the father the girl quote, ...
     The father of the girl said, ...

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

babai

1. (reintegrationist norm) second-person plural imperative of babar

From Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from *bahi (“woman; female”).

• Hyphenation: ba‧ba‧i
• IPA^(key): /baˈbaʔi/, [bɐˈbaʔi]

babái

1. female

babái (plural babbai)

1. woman; female; girl
2. concubine; mistress

babai

1. woman

• babae (used by Atayoc, Guerzon and Tatpiec's 1976 Phrase Book for Central Kankanaey)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman, female”).

• IPA^(key): /baˈbaʔi/ [bʌˈbaː.ʔi̞]
• Rhymes: -aʔi
• Syllabification: ba‧ba‧i

babái (plural babbai)

1. woman

   lalaki ya babai : man and woman

• Janet L. Allen, A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis of Kankanaey (2011)
• Din nanlogian di am-in (Kankanaey translation of the Biblical book of Genesis)

• babay (obsolete, Spanish orthography)
• babayi

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman, female”).

• IPA^(key): /bəˈbai/ [bəˈbäː.i] (noun:woman)
• IPA^(key): /ˌbaˈbai/ [ˌbäːˈbäː.i] (noun:women)
• Hyphenation: ba‧ba‧i

babái

1. woman

   malagung babai

   beautiful woman

   • 2005, Current Issues in Philippine Linguistics and Anthropology, page 340:

     (3) [Kapampangan]⁴
     a. Malagu ya ing babai.
     beautiful ABS.3SG DET.ABS.SG woman
     'The woman is beautiful.'

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. sister

bábái

1. women

• Leatrice T. Mirikitani, Speaking Kapampangan (1971) (sister)
• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (woman)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman, female”).

babai

1. woman; female

babai

1. second-person plural imperative of babar

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi.

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /babaʔi/ [ba.βaˈʔi]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: ba‧ba‧i

babai (Sulat Sūg spelling بَبَئِ)

1. woman

• Carl R. Galvez Rubino, Intensive Tausug: A Pedagogical Grammar (2006)