babe

Signification (English)

1. A baby or infant; a very young human or animal.
2. (slang) An attractive person, especially a young woman.
3. Darling (term of endearment).

Concepts

bébé

👶

nourrisson

enfant

🧒

nourisson

fille

👧

jeune fille

👧

beauté

nouveau-né

nana

poule

🐔

sirène

🧜‍♀️

sœur

👩‍👧

jolie fille

nénette

👧

poupon

bambin

greluche

chéri

demoiselle

femme

👩

fils

garçon

👦

gonzesse

gosse

🧒

naïf

Synonyms

baby

👶

infant

suckling

child

🧒

doll

dear

wench

girl

👧

chick

newborn

dame

kid

🧒

sister

👩‍👧

demoiselle

descendant

fille

fox

🦊

friend

gold

lady

lassie

little sweetie

mademoiselle

maid

maiden

mesdemoiselles

mite

morsel

neonate

new-born baby

newborn baby

newborn child

nursling

papoose

progeny

scrap

sexpot

signorina

small insect

son

tad

toots

tootsie

tootsy

tot

wife

👰‍♀️

woman

👩

yearling

young woman

damoiselle

Miss

little child

damosel

babby

infaneto

pikkie

bird

🐦

beauty

beloved

boy

👦

bunny

crumb

damozel

damsel

darling

daughter

dearest

dearie

deary

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/beɪb/

Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen anglais: babe

Inherited from ancien anglais: *baba

Cognate with Old Frisian: bobba

Cognate with frison septentrional: babbe

Cognate with ancien haut allemand: Babo

Cognate with gallois: baban

In summary

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”).
cognates and related terms
Related to Old Frisian bobba (“child”) (whence North Frisian babbe, babb, babe (“child”)), Old High German Babo (a male forename), see boy. Otherwise, origin obscure. Compare mama, dada, papa. Welsh baban (“baby”), believed by Skeat to be a mutation of maban, a diminutive of mab (“son”), is probably rather a borrowing from English. Cognate also with English bub.