baba

Anlam (İngilizce)

Noun

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

Adj

top-notch, high-quality, very good

Tireli olarak

ba‧ba

(IPA) olarak telaffuz edilir

/bɑˈbɑ/

Etimoloji (İngilizce)

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.

Cümleler

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

A father feeds nine sons, nine sons do not feed a father.