bába
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "baba"
Czech
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Czech bába, baba, from Proto-Slavic *baba.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bába f
- (derogatory) an old woman, a crone
- (dated or derogatory) grandmother
Usage notes
[edit]- Bába is a much less offensive word than baba.
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “bába”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “bába”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Slavic *baba.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bába (plural bábák)
- (folksy, dated) midwife
- (dialectal) old woman
- Synonyms: öregasszony, vénasszony, anyóka
- (dialectal, chiefly in certain phrases) witch
- Synonyms: boszorkány, boszorka, banya
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | bába | bábák |
accusative | bábát | bábákat |
dative | bábának | bábáknak |
instrumental | bábával | bábákkal |
causal-final | bábáért | bábákért |
translative | bábává | bábákká |
terminative | bábáig | bábákig |
essive-formal | bábaként | bábákként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | bábában | bábákban |
superessive | bábán | bábákon |
adessive | bábánál | bábáknál |
illative | bábába | bábákba |
sublative | bábára | bábákra |
allative | bábához | bábákhoz |
elative | bábából | bábákból |
delative | bábáról | bábákról |
ablative | bábától | bábáktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
bábáé | bábáké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
bábáéi | bábákéi |
Possessive forms of bába | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | bábám | bábáim |
2nd person sing. | bábád | bábáid |
3rd person sing. | bábája | bábái |
1st person plural | bábánk | bábáink |
2nd person plural | bábátok | bábáitok |
3rd person plural | bábájuk | bábáik |
Derived terms
[edit]Expressions
References
[edit]- ^ bába in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further reading
[edit]- bába in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- bába in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).
Kalasha
[edit]Noun
[edit]bába
Old Czech
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *baba.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bába f
Declension
[edit]Declension of bába (hard a-stem quant-alt)
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | bába | bábě | báby |
genitive | báby | bábú | bab |
dative | bábě | bábama | bábám |
accusative | bábu | bábě | báby |
vocative | bábo | bábě | báby |
locative | bábě | bábú | bábách |
instrumental | bábú | bábama | bábami |
See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.
Coordinate terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “bába”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění
Romani
[edit]Noun
[edit]bába f
Categories:
- Czech terms inherited from Old Czech
- Czech terms derived from Old Czech
- Czech terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Czech terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Czech/aːba
- Rhymes:Czech/aːba/2 syllables
- Czech lemmas
- Czech nouns
- Czech feminine nouns
- Czech derogatory terms
- Czech hard feminine nouns
- Czech nouns with quantitative vowel alternation
- cs:Female people
- Hungarian terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hungarian terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Hungarian/bɒ
- Rhymes:Hungarian/bɒ/2 syllables
- Hungarian lemmas
- Hungarian nouns
- Hungarian dated terms
- Hungarian dialectal terms
- hu:Occupations
- Kalasha lemmas
- Kalasha nouns
- Old Czech terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Old Czech terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Old Czech terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Czech terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Czech terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Old Czech terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Old Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Czech lemmas
- Old Czech nouns
- Old Czech feminine nouns
- Old Czech hard feminine a-stem nouns
- Old Czech nouns with quantitative vowel alternation
- zlw-ocs:Female family members
- Romani lemmas
- Romani nouns
- Romani feminine nouns
- Romani terms with usage examples