بابا

• IPA^(key): /baː.baː/

From Latin pāpa.

بَابَا • (bābā) m (plural بَابَوَات (bābawāt) or بَابَاوَات (bābāwāt))

1. (Christianity) pope, patriarch

• The Bishop of Rome is often specified as بَابَا ٱلْفاتِيكان (bābā l-fātīkān, literally “Pope of the Vatican”) to distinguish him from the Coptic pope.

• بَابَوِيّ (bābawiyy)
• بَابَوِيَّة (bābawiyya)

From baby talk.

بَابَا • (bābā) m

1. (childish) papa, daddy, father

From baby talk.

• IPA^(key): /baː.ba/, [bɑː.bɑ]

بابا • (bāba) m (plural بَابَوَات (bābāwāt) or بَابَهات (bābāhāt))

1. papa, daddy, father

   Synonyms: أبو (abu), والد (wālid)

The mentioned plurals are rarely used, while the most common plural is أَبَّهات (abbahāt) which stems from the Classical Arabic word أَبْ (ʔab).

بابا (bâba) (definite accusative باباݧ, plural بابالار)

1. Arabic spelling of bâba (“father”)

بابا • (baba)

1. papa, daddy, father

   Synonyms: پدر (peder), والد (vâlid)

2. a post of stout timber set upright, a stanchion

• آق بابا (ak baba, “vulture”)

• انا (ana, “mother”)

• Turkish: baba
  • → German: baba
• → Albanian: baba
• → Armenian: (Constantinople) պապա (papa), (Van) բաբա (baba)
• → Laz: ბაბა (baba)

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بابا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 314

• IPA^(key): /bɑˈbɑ/

بابا • (bābā́) m

1. (informal) dad, daddy
2. grandfather

• (father): پلار

• بابو (bâbo) (dialectal, Shiraz)
• ببا (bobâ) (dialectal)
• بوا (bovâ) (dialectal, Kazerun, Bushehr, Khesht, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan)
• ببو (bobo) (dialectal, Abadeh)
• بو (bow) (dialectal, Kazerun)

Originally from baby talk, see mama and papa.

Readings
Classical reading?	bāḇā
Dari reading?	bābā, bābāy
Iranian reading?	bâbâ
Tajik reading?	bobo

• Audio (Iran):

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Dari	بابا
Iranian Persian
Tajik	бобо

بابا • (bâbâ)

1. (colloquial) dad, daddy, father

   Synonyms: پاپا (pâpâ), پدر (pedar, “father”)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume III, verse 1174:

     بعد از آن گفتند ای مادر بیا / گور بابا کو تو ما را ره نما

     ba'd az ân goftand ey mâdar biy-â / gur-e bâbâ ku to mâ râ rah namâ

     Afterwards they said, "Come, O mother, where is our father's grave? Do thou show us the way."

2. (colloquial) grandpa, grandfather

   Synonyms: بابابزرگ (bâbâ-bozorg), پدربزرگ (pedar-bozorg, “grandfather”)

3. (colloquial) fellow

• → Khalaj: bâba

• يابا (yāba)

From baby talk.

• IPA^(key): /bˤaː.bˤa/, [ˈbˤɑː.bˤɑ]

• Audio (Ramallah):

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بابا • (ḅāḅa) m

1. dad, papa
2. an affectionate form of address used by a father to his child

• أب (ʔabb, “father”)
• ماما (ṃāṃa, “mom”)

بابا • (bābā) m (Hindi spelling बाबा)

1. papa, daddy, father

From Pashto بابا (bābā).

بابا (bābā)

1. elder, grandfather