babar

From baba (“drool”).

• IPA^(key): /baˈbaɾ/ [baˈβ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ

babar (first-person singular present babo, first-person singular preterite babei, past participle babado)

1. to drool, slobber

   Synonym: babexar

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “babar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “babar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “babar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “babar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “babar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbabar/ [ˈba.bar]
• Rhymes: -abar
• Syllabification: ba‧bar

Inherited from Malay بابر (babar, “expansion; to open out”).

babar

1. to spread, to unfurl, to unfold

Borrowed from Javanese ꦧꦧꦂ (babar), from Old Javanese babar (“parted, scattered, rent asunder”).

babar

1. alternative spelling of bebar (“to run here and there”)
2. to proliferate

   Synonyms: bertambah, membiak

3. to color with soga and so on

• “babar” 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.

babar

1. romanization of ꦧꦧꦂ

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• IPA^(key): /bar/
• Rhymes: -bar
• Hyphenation: ba‧bar

babar

1. parted, scattered, rent asunder

• > Javanese: ꦧꦧꦂ (babar) (inherited)
  • → Indonesian: babar

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

From baba +‎ -ar.

• Homophone: babá (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: ba‧bar

babar (first-person singular present babo, first-person singular preterite babei, past participle babado)

1. to slobber, slaver
2. to dribble

• “babar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025