babo

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *babuy.

babo

1. (Favorlang) pig

• Ogawa, Naoyoshi (2003), “babo”, in English-Favorlang vocabulary, Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 143

babo

1. first-person singular present indicative of babar

• babu

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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”), probably ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer *(ʔ)boʔ (“mother”). Compare with Temiar buk (“mother”), Jehai baboʔ (“woman”), Vietnamese vợ (“wife”) and Mon ၝောံ (bɜ̀ʔ)).

babo (plural babo-babo)

1. dated spelling of babu (“housemaid”)

• “babo”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Serbo-Croatian baba (“grandmother”), an allusion to grandmothers.

babo

1. toothless

• Antonio Pellizzer; Giovanni Pellizzer (1992), Vocabulario del dialetto di Rovigno d'Istria, page 79
• Sandro Cergna (2015), Vocabolario del dialetto di Valle d'Istria, →ISBN, page 34

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”), Māori 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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ba.bo/

babo

1. (vulgar) senile (experiencing a decline in mental faculty due to old age)

   Mak cik kamek dah babo sikit sampe kekadang lupak makan.

   My aunt is now a bit senile that she forgets to eat sometimes.

2. (humorous, vulgar) forgetful

   Harap nya sik babo sampe lupak apa kau padah nya tadik.

   I hope he's not so forgetful that he forgets what you told him just now.

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

Derived from Turkish baba (“father, crime boss”).

bábo m anim (Cyrillic spelling ба́бо)

1. (chiefly Bosnia) father

• →? German: Babo

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, →OCLC, page 23