babaye

• babayi

• IPA^(key): /baˈbajiː/

babáye

1. woman or girl; female

• Filipino-Aklanon Dictionary
• Town of a thousand (1993), page 94: The [Aklan dialect] book is entitled Urbanidad O Mayad nga Pamatasan Bagay sa mga Ungang Babaye which could be translated "Politeness or Good Breeding expected of Young Girls"
• Alexander de Juan, Aklanon Proverbs: A Preliminary Aklanon Paremiology (2013) (spells it babayi)

• IPA^(key): /baˈbaje/ [baˈba.je]
• Hyphenation: ba‧ba‧ye

babáye (Basahan spelling ᜊᜊᜌᜒ)

1. alternative spelling of babayi

• babay — eye dialect
• babayi

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi. Cognate with Tagalog babae, Kapampangan babai, Ilocano babai, Mansaka bobay, Maranao bebay, Paiwan vavayan, and Yogad bebay.

First attested in Antonio Pigafetta's Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo—detailing the first circumnavigation of the world between 1519 and 1522.

• Hyphenation: ba‧ba‧ye
• (Standard Cebuano) IPA^(key): /baˈbaje/ [bɐˈba.je]
• (Bohol, Southern Leyte) IPA^(key): /baˈbad͡ʒe/ [bɐˈba.d͡ʒe]

babáye (Badlit spelling ᜊᜊᜌᜒ)

1. female human, especially an adult; a woman, girl, lady

   Coordinate terms: lalaki (“man”), dalaga (“young/unmarried woman”)

2. (by extension) female animal or plant

   Synonym: baye

3. (by extension) mistress

   Synonym: kabit

babáye (Badlit spelling ᜊᜊᜌᜒ)

1. female
2. feminine, girly

   Synonym: binabaye

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:babaye.

• babayi
• babae (possibly nonstandard or dated)

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

• IPA^(key): /baˈbajɛ/

babáye

1. female; woman or girl

   Coordinate term: lalake

• Cecile Motus, Hiligaynon Lessons →ISBN
• Balangaw sa tingadlaw: tinipon nga mga malip-ot nga sugilanon : a collection of short stories in Hiligaynon (2008)

babaye f

1. alternative form of baboe

babaye f

1. alternative form of babaille

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babaye class IX (plural babaye class X)

1. contraction of baba yake: his/her father.

• babake

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /baˈbaje/ [bɐˈbaː.jɛ]
• Rhymes: -aje
• Syllabification: ba‧ba‧ye

babaye (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜊᜌᜒ) (dialectal, chiefly Southern Tagalog)

1. alternative form of babae

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

• IPA^(key): /baˈbaje/, [baˈba.ji]

babaye

1. woman

• Kandabao: Essays on Waray Language, Literature, and Culture (1982): 'babaye (woman)'
• Bokabularyong traylinggwal: Waray-Filipino-English (2004), page 14: 'asawa - asawa - spouse', 'asawa nga babaye - asawang babae - wife'