baba

Meaning

Noun

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

Adj

top-notch, high-quality, very good

Concepts

father

👨‍👦

dad

👨‍👦

daddy

👨‍👦

papa

👨‍👦

sire

pop

dada

pater

pa

beget

governor

ancient

sheik

elder

sheikh

Father

👨‍👦

godparent

Lord

baba

Pa

daddy-o

abba

ancestor

begetter

fader

husband

🤵

pappy

parent

paw

pere

poppa

pops

priest

progenitor

Synonyms

ata

peder

göbek

büyük baba

dede

babalık

babacığım

babalar

çatı merteği

aygırın babası

pederler

Hyphenated as

ba‧ba

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɑˈbɑ/

Etymology

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.

Sentences

Baba , ne oldu ?

Dad, what happened?

Baba , ne yapıyorsun?

Dad, what are you doing?

Ama söz vermiştin baba !

But you promised, Dad!