babe

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English

Etymology

From Middle English babe, a variant of earlier baban, perhaps from Old English *baba (“boy, child”), 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)

1. (literary or poetic) A baby or infant; a very young human or animal. [from 14th c.]
2. (slang) An attractive person, especially a young woman. [from 20th c.]
3. (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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• bab, babbe
• (early) baban

Etymology

From Old English *baba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaːb(ə)/, /ˈbab(ə)/

Noun

babe (plural babes)

1. 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

1. inflection of babar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈba.be]

Noun

babe f pl

1. plural of babă

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

babe (Cyrillic spelling бабе)

1. inflection of baba:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbabe]

Noun

babe

1. dative/locative singular of baba

Swazi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *bààbá.

Noun

babé class 1a (plural bóbabé class 2a)

1. my father

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.