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See also:Babuandbaboe

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromHindiबाबू(bābū).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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babu (pluralbabus)(India)

  1. (Hinglish, North India)AHindu title of respect, equivalent toMr., usually appended to the surname of a Hindu man.[from 18th c.]
    • 1989,Amitav Ghosh,Shadow Lines:
      I could see Kana-babu’s sweet-shop at the end of their lane with absolute clarity.
  2. (derogatory, chiefly social media) anarchetypical Indianbureaucrat, perceived as beingcorrupt,lazy orarrogant.
    • 2025 July 10, @MehHarshil,X (Formerly Twitter)‎[1]:
      BBMP doesn’t have any elected representatives right now. So ababu has floated this tender to benefit his favourite businessmen.
  3. (historical) Originally, a Hindugentleman employed to work as aclerk for thecolonialadministration; now, a clerk or low-ranking governmentofficial.[from 19th c.]
    • 1888,Rudyard Kipling, “His Chance in Life”, inPlain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published2005, page57:
      TheBabu put on his cap and quietly dropped out of the window
    • 1934 October,George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 2”, inBurmese Days, New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers, Publishers,→OCLC:
      Officebabus are the real rulers of this country now. Our number's up. Best thing we can do is to shut up shop and let 'em stew in their own juice.
    • 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, inWorld Englishes, page116:
      From the prevailing colonial perspective, the English of thebabus was error-ridden and characterised by over-elaborate ornateness, and for these ‘transgressions’ it became the butt of native-speaker ridicule.

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Brunei Malay

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Etymology

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FromJavaneseꦧꦧꦸ(babu,“female servant”, literally“mother”), fromOld Javanesebabu(“mother; older servant”),wawuh(“familiar, acquainted”), ultimately probably fromProto-Mon-Khmer*(ʔ)boʔ(“mother”) (compareTemiarbuk(“mother”),Jehaibaboʔ(“woman”),Vietnamesevợ(“wife”), andMonၝောံ(bɜ̀ʔ)).

Noun

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babu

  1. Amother.
    Synonym:mama
  2. Anaunt.
  3. Term for any middle-aged or elderly woman.

Bunun

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Etymology

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FromProto-Austronesian*babuy.

Noun

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babu

  1. pig (livestock)

Indonesian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited fromMalaybabu, fromJavaneseꦧꦧꦸ(babu,“female servant”, literally“mother”), fromOld Javanesebabu(“mother; older servant”),wawuh(“familiar, acquainted”), ultimately probably fromProto-Mon-Khmer*(ʔ)boʔ(“mother”) (compare withTemiarbuk(“mother”),Jehaibaboʔ(“woman”),Vietnamesevợ(“wife”), andMonၝောံ(bɜ̀ʔ)).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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babu (pluralbabu-babu)

  1. housemaid

Derived terms

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Further reading

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Jarawa

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Etymology

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FromHindiबाबू(bābū). Cognate toÖngebabu.

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Noun

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babu

  1. official,officer (of theIndiangovernment of theAndamans)

References

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  • Kumar, Pramod (2012)Descriptive and Typological Study of Jarawa[2] (PhD). Jawaharlal Nehru University. Page 111, 141, 187.

Javanese

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Romanization

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babu

  1. romanization ofꦧꦧꦸ

Lower Sorbian

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Noun

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babu

  1. accusative/instrumentalsingular ofbaba

Old Javanese

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Etymology

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Unknown, probably fromProto-Mon-Khmer*(ʔ)boʔ(“mother”) (compareTemiarbuk(“mother”),Jehaibaboʔ(“woman”),Vietnamesevợ(“wife”), andMonၝောံ(bɜ̀ʔ)).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ba.bu/
  • Rhymes:-bu
  • Hyphenation:ba‧bu

Noun

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babu

  1. mother
    Synonyms:babu,bibi,ibu,iduṅ,ina,inaṅ,induṅ,janmayoni,mātā,matuh,rena
  2. older servant

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Further reading

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

Serbo-Croatian

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Noun

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babu (Cyrillic spellingбабу)

  1. accusativesingular ofbaba

Shabo

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Adjective

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babu

  1. two

Slovak

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Noun

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babu

  1. accusativesingular ofbaba

Swahili

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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babu classV (pluralmababu classVI)

  1. grandfather (from either side)
  2. ancestor,forebear
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed fromArabicبَاب(bāb).

Noun

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babu classIX (pluralbabu classX)

  1. chapter

Tagalog

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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A play onbabay orEnglishbye-bye.

Pronunciation

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Interjection

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babú (Baybayin spellingᜊᜊᜓ)

  1. (slang)goodbye;ta ta
    Synonyms:paalam,babay

Ternate

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Etymology

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Cognate toGalelababu, unless the Galela is borrowed from Ternate.

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Verb

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babu (Jawiبابو)

  1. (intransitive) (of humans) tofall
    Synonym:doro(of non-humans)
    ngofa ibabu ―childrenfall
    إبابو تم کاه ―ibabu toma kaha ―theyfell on the ground
  2. (intransitive) to beoverthrown

Conjugation

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Conjugation ofbabu
singularplural
inclusiveexclusive
1st persontobabufobabumibabu
2nd personnobabunibabu
3rd
person		masculineobabuibabu
yobabu(archaic)
femininemobabu
neuteribabu

References

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  • Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890),Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001),A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Veps

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Etymology

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FromProto-Finnic*papu. The initialb- was introduced by analogy with Russianбоб(bob).

Noun

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babu

  1. bean

Inflection

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Inflection ofbabu (inflection type 1/ilo)
nominative sing.babu
genitive sing.babun
partitive sing.babud
partitive plur.babuid
singularplural
nominativebabubabud
accusativebabunbabud
genitivebabunbabuiden
partitivebabudbabuid
essive-instructivebabunbabuin
translativebabuksbabuikš
inessivebabusbabuiš
elativebabuspäibabuišpäi
illativebabuhubabuihe
adessivebabulbabuil
ablativebabulpäibabuilpäi
allativebabulebabuile
abessivebabutababuita
comitativebabunkebabuidenke
prolativebabudmebabuidme
approximative Ibabunnobabuidenno
approximative IIbabunnoksbabuidennoks
egressivebabunnopäibabuidennopäi
terminative Ibabuhusaibabuihesai
terminative IIbabulesaibabuilesai
terminative IIIbabussai—
additive Ibabuhupäibabuihepäi
additive IIbabulepäibabuilepäi

References

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  • Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “боб”, inUz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎[3], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Yindjibarndi

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Noun

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babu

  1. father
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