babo

babo

1. first-person singular present indicative of babar

• babu

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.bo/
• Rhymes: -bo, -o
• Hyphenation: ba‧bo

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babo

1. to carry in the front

From Malay babu. From Javanese ꦧꦧꦸ (babu, “female servant”, literally “mother”), from Old Javanese babu (“mother; older servant”), wawuh (“familiar, acquainted”). Compare Portuguese babo.

babo (plural babo-babo)

1. dated spelling of babu (“housemaid”)

• “babo” 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.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babaw, from Proto-Austronesian *babaw. Cognate with Paiwan vavaw (“up, above”), Kavalan babaw (“upper surface, upper part, top”), Cebuano babaw (“top”), Palauan bab (“area/space above, top, surface”), Maori waho (“outside”).

babo

1. surface; top

   Synonym: tas

babo

1. upper

babo

1. above

   Synonym: tas

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bawbaw (“shallow”). Compare Tagalog babaw, Tetum fohon.

babo

1. shoal; shallow (place where water is shallow)

   Synonym: kababon

babo

1. aunt

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.bɔ/

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• Rhymes: -abɔ
• Syllabification: ba‧bo

babo f

1. vocative singular of baba

babo

1. first-person singular present indicative of babar

• IPA^(key): [ˈbabo]

babo f

1. vocative singular of babă

• IPA^(key): /bǎːbo/
• Hyphenation: ba‧bo

bábo m anim (Cyrillic spelling ба́бо)

1. (regional) father

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

babo (Cyrillic spelling бабо)

1. vocative singular of baba

• Reković, Ibrahim (2013) Rječnik plavsko-gusinjskoga govora [Dictionary of the Plav-Gusinje dialect], Podgorica: Institut za crnogorski jezik i književnost, →ISBN, page 23