Feminine

baba

Meaning

  1. (feminine) drool, dribble
  2. (feminine) slime
  3. (Venezuela, feminine) baby alligator, caiman or crocodile

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
ba‧ba
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbaba/
Etymology

From the hypothesized Vulgar Latin *baba (“drooling, infantile talk”), ultimately imitative of children's speech on the pattern of the repeated syllable ba.

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