baba

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. father
2. bollard
3. saint
4. (slang) crime boss
5. (slang) penis, dick
6. roundabout

Adj

top-notch, high-quality, very good

Con trattino come

ba‧ba

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/bɑˈbɑ/

Etimologia (Inglese)

From Ottoman Turkish بابا. First attested in 13th century. Nişanyan suggests the current word is a result of onomatopoeia found commonly in many languages. (In that respect, compare also papa and mama as translingual phenomena for father and mother.)
Cognate with
Southern Altai баабый (baabïy, “small baby”), папа (papa),
Kazakh баба (baba),
Bashkir баба (baba),
Uzbek bobo,
Uyghur بابا (baba), بوۋا (bowa),
Turkmen baba,
Azerbaijani baba (“grandfather”), etc.

Frasi

Bir baba dokuz oğlu besler , dokuz oğul bir babayı beslemez .

Un padre nutre nove figli, nove figli non nutrono un padre.