English Online Dictionary. What means babe? What does babe mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English babe, a variant of earlier baban, perhaps from Old English *baba (“boy, child”), from Proto-West Germanic *babō, from Proto-Germanic *babô, reduplicated variant of *ba-, *bō- (“father, brother, close male relation”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /beɪb/, enPR: bāb
- Rhymes: -eɪb
Noun
babe (plural babes)
- (literary or poetic) A baby or infant; a very young human or animal. [from 14th c.]
- (slang) An attractive person, especially a young woman. [from 20th c.]
- (endearing) Darling (term of endearment).
Synonyms
- (infant): baby, child, infant
- (attractive person): looker; See Thesaurus:beautiful person
- (woman): hottie, doll, fox; See: Thesaurus:beautiful woman
- (darling): darling, dear, love, sweetheart
Derived terms
Translations
References
Anagrams
- abbe, abbé
Galician
Verb
babe
- inflection of babar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Middle English
Alternative forms
- bab, babbe
- (early) baban
Etymology
From Old English *baba.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbaːb(ə)/, /ˈbab(ə)/
Noun
babe (plural babes)
- baby, infant
Derived terms
- baby
Descendants
- English: babe, bab
- → Irish: báb
- → Welsh: baban
References
- “bābe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -abi, (Portugal) -abɨ
- Hyphenation: ba‧be
Verb
babe
- inflection of babar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈba.be]
Noun
babe f pl
- plural of babă
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
babe (Cyrillic spelling бабе)
- inflection of baba:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbabe]
Noun
babe
- dative/locative singular of baba
Swazi
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *bààbá.
Noun
babé class 1a (plural bóbabé class 2a)
- my father
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.