baby

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baby c (singular definite babyen, plural indefinite babyer)

babyen (definite singular)
babyer (indefinite plural)
baby (indefinite nominative singular)
babyen (definite nominative singular)
babyer (indefinite nominative plural)
babyerne (definite nominative plural)
babys (genitive indefinite singular)
babyens (definite genitive singular)
babyers (genitive indefinite plural)
babyernes (definite genitive plural)


baby

nl-noun

baby m (plural baby's or babies, diminutive baby'tje n)

baby's (plural)
babies (plural)
baby'tje (diminutive neuter)


baby

The baby new to earth and sky,
What time his tender palm is prest
Against the circle of the breast,
Has never thought that ‘this is I:’ […]

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XLIV, page 67:

In that film, I often hid my head in my hands, unable to watch scenes about dead babies and diving into gruesome lavatories.

2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in The Guardian:

A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.

When is your baby due?

Her baby had always been active, even before he was born, when he would kick her bladder.

Karen went to England to have her baby several months before he was born so he would have the medication she needed before the baby was born and she wanted the doctors she was used to when she lived there. It would be cheaper to have the baby in England. Karen named the baby Bill Joseph […] He laughed a lot and loved his bath which he took in a plastic baby tub.

2013 June 7, Natalie Pierce, Weaving My Way Through Life, Author House, →ISBN, page 44:

A very young human, even if not yet born.

Any very young animal, especially a vertebrate; many species have specific names for their babies, such as kittens for the babies of cats, puppies for the babies of dogs, and chicks for the babies of birds. See :Category:Baby animals for more.

Stand up for yourself – don't be such a baby!

A person who is immature, infantile or feeble.

I only qualified as an architect this summer, so I'm still a baby.

A person who is new to or inexperienced in something.

Adam is the baby of the family.

"You are very dull this morning, Sheriff," said the youngest daughter of the house, who, being the baby and pretty, had grown pettishly privileged in speech.

1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water:

"He's a year older than me." "You're the baby, eh?"

1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 114:

The lastborn of a family; the youngest sibling, irrespective of age.

Too busy thinking about my baby, and I ain't got time for nothing else.

Baby, don't cry.

Well, since my baby left me,
Well, I found a new place to dwell.
Well, it's down at the end of Lonely Street
At Heartbreak Hotel.

1956, “Heartbreak Hotel”, Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden, Elvis Presley (lyrics), performed by Elvis Presley:

A person's romantic partner; a term of endearment used to refer to or address one's girlfriend, boyfriend or spouse.

Hey baby, what are you doing later?

(informal) A form of address to a person considered to be attractive.

This test program I've designed is my new baby.

A concept or creation endeared by its creator.

You need to talk to John about that – it's his baby.

Sovnarkom was Lenin's baby, it was where he focused all his energies […].

1996, Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy, Folio Society, published 2015, page 902:

See my new car here? I can't wait to take this baby for a drive.

(archaic) A small image of an infant; a doll.

These more general spells and rituals can also be helpful for baby witches, who might want more time to practice before they hop into highly-specific spells.

2020, Nina Kahn, The Joy of Hex: Modern Spells Without All the Bullsh*t, unnumbered page:

That was even worse than blurting my sexuality like I had when I was what we called a “baby dyke” in college, desperate to find other lesbians for friendship or more.

2020, Jane Kolven, The Holiday Detour, unnumbered page:

As someone who is still a 'baby trans', these collaborations have taught me so much about what it means to live outside cisnormativity.

2021, Yve Rees, quoted in Sam Elkin & Yve Rees, "Spilling the T", Bent Street: Australian LGBTIQA+ Arts, Writing & Ideas, Volume 5, Issue 1, unnumbered page

(often attributive) One who is new to an identity or community.

→ Cornish: babi

→ Danish: baby

→ Dutch: baby

→ Finnish: baby

→ French: baby

desctree

→ French: bébé
→ Finnish: bébé
→ Portuguese: bebé, bebê (Brazil)
→ Romanian: bebe
→ Spanish: bebé

→ German: Baby
→ Lower Sorbian: baby
→ Upper Sorbian: baby

→ Interlingua: baby

→ Italian: baby

→ Norwegian Bokmål: baby

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: baby

→ South Slavey: bebí

→ Spanish: baby

→ Swedish: baby

→ Vietnamese: bé bi

גּוּר

and there are special terms for certain animals

حَبِيبِي

form of address to a man or a woman considered to be attractive

From Middle English baby, babie (“baby”), a diminutive form of babe (“babe, baby”), equivalent to babe + -y/-ie (“endearing and diminutive suffix”). Perhaps ultimately imitative of baby talk (compare babble).


baby

(of vegetables, etc.) Picked when small and immature (as in baby corn, baby potatoes).

Mrs. Paull held out her hand to the babyest of the quartette, as they tiptoed up to the bed. “Lift her up, please, Marie!” she said, motioning to the place enclosed by her arm. When the rosy cheek touched hers upon the pillow, she asked ...

1894, Marion Harland, The Royal Road, Or, Taking Him at His Word, page 136:

That evening, we grouped about the fire in the parlor, a wide circle that left room for the babyest of the party to disport themselves upon the rug, in the glow of the grate piled with cannel coal.

1910, Marion Harland, Marion Harland's Autobiography: The Story of a Long Life, page 408:

Of when I was a baby editor. Very baby, it was actually a kind of work experience, I was still at university but I knew what I wanted. With a small independent publisher, good reputation, did some marvellous books, […]

2006, Marion Halligan, The Apricot Colonel, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN:

[…] party for Halloween proper? Just the four of us and some goofy, spooky kids' movies, you know? Some cute pumpkin-shaped cupcakes? I could make my dog a little costume. He could be a baby witch. The babyest Scapegracer.” I blinked.

2020, Hannah Abigail Clarke, The Scapegracers, Erewhon, →ISBN, page 391:

Newest (overall, or in some group or state); most inexperienced.

Spider. Here let us begin at the beginning, at the babyest of books for Edith's nursery.

She let it drop out of her sleeve, and it was two Chings — the dearest, littlest, babyest, tiny Chings — little balls of fur! And she ran away, and daddy's father picked them up, and put them in his pockets, and brought them home, […]

1894, Edith E. Cuthell, Two Little Children and Ching, page 107:

Lemon-juice for ink spots: Not many weeks ago the babyest member of our household - perhaps moved by a hereditary tendency toward ink - slinging - divided the contents of an ink bottle impartially between the tiles of the bath-room floor ...

1908, Marion Harland, Housekeeper's Guide and Family Physician, page 98:

"There's a babier baby than Mike," she said. "But you will see her to-morrow. Aren't we rich? Come in and see Matilda - you won't find her much changed. It's so absurd to see her with all these children."

1908, Mary Findlater, Jane Helen Findlater, Crossriggs, page 25:

Now, we all believe in national defense, but we also believe in peacetime activity, and my personal idea about aviation is that it is still in its absolute “babyest” type of infancy, that it is nothing even approaching what it will be even 10 years [from now].

1936, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs, To Promote the National Defense by Stengthening the Air Reserve, Hearings ..., on H.R. 4348, 12241, Feb 27, April 22, 1936, page 31:

A doll show held the attention of children at Allen as a special feature during the week. Winners were:[…]baby-est doll, Betty McQueary.

1937 August 7, “Recreation Activities in City Attain New Peak in Past Week”, in The State Journal, eighty-third year, Lansing, Mich., section “Doll Show at Allen”, page 2, column 7:

He’ll [Joseph H. Ball] be our baby senator for the next two years. Senator Rush D. Holt of West Virginia will be his baby rival briefly, but Rush is a lame duck. He’ll be out of the picture at the end of the year and Joe will be the baby-est of them all.

1940 October 22, Charles P. Stewart, “Washington At A Glance”, in The Evening Independent, volume LXXIV, number 130, Massillon, Oh., page five, column 2:

The victorious individuals were as follows: Doll Contest—[…]“baby-est,” 1st, Mary Grew, 2nd, Susan Shamlian;

1960 August 4, Herb Smith, “Recreation In Cedar Grove”, in Verona-Cedar Grove Times, volume XII, number 31, Verona, N.J., page 26, column 2:

One of them, Allure Potemkin (and don’t you wish that was your name?), hikes up her slip and does a riotous dance number called Baby Legs. Leona Brausen, whose own dimpled gams — “baby-er than ever” as she says — inspired the role, is back onstage Saturday to dance the dance for the last time.

2007 August 2, Liz Nicholls, “Gala to mark Teatro’s entry into the quarter-century club”, in Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alta., page D3, column 1:

(in the comparative or superlative) Like or pertaining to a baby, in size or youth; small, young.

en-adj

baby (comparative babier or babyer or baby-er, superlative babiest or babyest or baby-est)

babier (comparative)
babyer (comparative)
baby-er (comparative)
babiest (superlative)
babyest (superlative)
baby-est (superlative)


baby

[…] though he tried to be gruff and mature, he yielded to her and was glad to be babied.

1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:

Then the man effected measles and stayed off the job for six weeks, babying himself at home, though he lived just round the corner from my half-built house.

1944, Emily Carr, “Friction”, in The House of All Sorts:

(transitive) To coddle; to pamper somebody like an infant.

In the past 27 years, "Mr. Mac," as he is known to his 46,000 teammates, has built and babied his McDonnell Co. from nothing into a $1 billion-a-year corporation.

1967 March 31, “Mr. Mac and His Team”, in Time:

1912, Linda Craig, interviewed by Theresa Forte, "Tree and Twig farm — a treasure chest of heirloom tomatoes," Welland Tribune, 25 May, 2012, https://web.archive.org/web/20171205052150/http://www.wellandtribune.ca/2012/05/23/tree-and-twig-farm--a-treasure-chest-of-heirloom-tomatoes
I have grown them for years and although some years are better than others, I have always had loads of tomatoes by not babying them, going easy on the water, and fertilizing with compost in the planting hole.

(transitive) To tend (something) with care; to be overly attentive to (something), fuss over.

en-verb

baby (third-person singular simple present babies, present participle babying, simple past and past participle babied)

babies (present singular third-person)
babying (participle present)
babied (participle past)
babied (past)

dorloti

to coddle; to pamper somebody like an infant


baby

(rare outside compounds) Synonym of vauva (“baby”) (very young human)

baby (nominative singular)
babyt (nominative plural)
baby (accusative nominative singular)
babyt (accusative nominative plural)
babyn (accusative genitive singular)
babyt (accusative genitive plural)
babyn (genitive singular)
babyjen (genitive plural)
babyä (partitive singular)
babyjä (partitive plural)
babyssä (inessive singular)
babyissä (inessive plural)
babystä (elative singular)
babyistä (elative plural)
babyyn (illative singular)
babyihin (illative plural)
babyllä (adessive singular)
babyillä (adessive plural)
babyltä (ablative singular)
babyiltä (ablative plural)
babylle (allative singular)
babyille (allative plural)
babynä (essive singular)
babyinä (essive plural)
babyksi (singular translative)
babyiksi (plural translative)
babyttä (abessive singular)
babyittä (abessive plural)
babyin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
babyni (nominative singular)
babyni (nominative plural)
babyni (accusative nominative singular)
babyni (accusative nominative plural)
babyni (accusative genitive singular)
babyni (accusative genitive plural)
babyni (genitive singular)
babyjeni (genitive plural)
babyäni (partitive singular)
babyjäni (partitive plural)
babyssäni (inessive singular)
babyissäni (inessive plural)
babystäni (elative singular)
babyistäni (elative plural)
babyyni (illative singular)
babyihini (illative plural)
babylläni (adessive singular)
babyilläni (adessive plural)
babyltäni (ablative singular)
babyiltäni (ablative plural)
babylleni (allative singular)
babyilleni (allative plural)
babynäni (essive singular)
babyinäni (essive plural)
babykseni (singular translative)
babyikseni (plural translative)
babyttäni (abessive singular)
babyittäni (abessive plural)
babyineni (comitative plural)
babysi (nominative singular)
babysi (nominative plural)
babysi (accusative nominative singular)
babysi (accusative nominative plural)
babysi (accusative genitive singular)
babysi (accusative genitive plural)
babysi (genitive singular)
babyjesi (genitive plural)
babyäsi (partitive singular)
babyjäsi (partitive plural)
babyssäsi (inessive singular)
babyissäsi (inessive plural)
babystäsi (elative singular)
babyistäsi (elative plural)
babyysi (illative singular)
babyihisi (illative plural)
babylläsi (adessive singular)
babyilläsi (adessive plural)
babyltäsi (ablative singular)
babyiltäsi (ablative plural)
babyllesi (allative singular)
babyillesi (allative plural)
babynäsi (essive singular)
babyinäsi (essive plural)
babyksesi (singular translative)
babyiksesi (plural translative)
babyttäsi (abessive singular)
babyittäsi (abessive plural)
babyinesi (comitative plural)
babymme (nominative singular)
babymme (nominative plural)
babymme (accusative nominative singular)
babymme (accusative nominative plural)
babymme (accusative genitive singular)
babymme (accusative genitive plural)
babymme (genitive singular)
babyjemme (genitive plural)
babyämme (partitive singular)
babyjämme (partitive plural)
babyssämme (inessive singular)
babyissämme (inessive plural)
babystämme (elative singular)
babyistämme (elative plural)
babyymme (illative singular)
babyihimme (illative plural)
babyllämme (adessive singular)
babyillämme (adessive plural)
babyltämme (ablative singular)
babyiltämme (ablative plural)
babyllemme (allative singular)
babyillemme (allative plural)
babynämme (essive singular)
babyinämme (essive plural)
babyksemme (singular translative)
babyiksemme (plural translative)
babyttämme (abessive singular)
babyittämme (abessive plural)
babyinemme (comitative plural)
babynne (nominative singular)
babynne (nominative plural)
babynne (accusative nominative singular)
babynne (accusative nominative plural)
babynne (accusative genitive singular)
babynne (accusative genitive plural)
babynne (genitive singular)
babyjenne (genitive plural)
babyänne (partitive singular)
babyjänne (partitive plural)
babyssänne (inessive singular)
babyissänne (inessive plural)
babystänne (elative singular)
babyistänne (elative plural)
babyynne (illative singular)
babyihinne (illative plural)
babyllänne (adessive singular)
babyillänne (adessive plural)
babyltänne (ablative singular)
babyiltänne (ablative plural)
babyllenne (allative singular)
babyillenne (allative plural)
babynänne (essive singular)
babyinänne (essive plural)
babyksenne (singular translative)
babyiksenne (plural translative)
babyttänne (abessive singular)
babyittänne (abessive plural)
babyinenne (comitative plural)
babynsä (nominative singular)
babynsä (nominative plural)
babynsä (accusative nominative singular)
babynsä (accusative nominative plural)
babynsä (accusative genitive singular)
babynsä (accusative genitive plural)
babynsä (genitive singular)
babyjensä (genitive plural)
babyään (partitive singular)
babyänsä (partitive singular)
babyjään (partitive plural)
babyjänsä (partitive plural)
babyssään (inessive singular)
babyssänsä (inessive singular)
babyissään (inessive plural)
babyissänsä (inessive plural)
babystään (elative singular)
babystänsä (elative singular)
babyistään (elative plural)
babyistänsä (elative plural)
babyynsä (illative singular)
babyihinsä (illative plural)
babyllään (adessive singular)
babyllänsä (adessive singular)
babyillään (adessive plural)
babyillänsä (adessive plural)
babyltään (ablative singular)
babyltänsä (ablative singular)
babyiltään (ablative plural)
babyiltänsä (ablative plural)
babylleen (allative singular)
babyllensä (allative singular)
babyilleen (allative plural)
babyillensä (allative plural)
babynään (essive singular)
babynänsä (essive singular)
babyinään (essive plural)
babyinänsä (essive plural)
babykseen (singular translative)
babyksensä (singular translative)
babyikseen (plural translative)
babyiksensä (plural translative)
babyttään (abessive singular)
babyttänsä (abessive singular)
babyittään (abessive plural)
babyittänsä (abessive plural)
babyineen (comitative plural)
babyinensä (comitative plural)
beibi (alternative)
beibe (alternative)


baby

Borrowed from English baby, from Middle English baby.


baby

baby m anim or (canonical neuter)
baby (nominative singular)
babyja (dual nominative)
babyje (nominative plural)
babyja (genitive singular)
babyjowu (dual genitive)
babyjow (genitive plural)
babyjoju (dative singular)
babyjoma (dative dual)
babyjam (dative plural)
babyja (accusative singular)
babyjowu (accusative dual)
babyje (accusative plural)
babyjow (accusative plural)
babyjom (instrumental singular)
babyjoma (dual instrumental)
babyjami (instrumental plural)
babyju (locative singular)
babyjoma (dual locative)
babyjach (locative plural)


baby

inflection of baba:
nominative/accusative plural

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


baby

English: baby, babby, babbie (see there for further descendants)

Scots: babbie

babee (alternative)
babi (alternative)
babie (alternative)


baby

babyen (definite singular)
babyer (indefinite plural)
babyene (definite plural)


baby

babyen (definite singular)
babyar (indefinite plural)
babyane (definite plural)


baby

inflection of baba:
nominative/accusative/vocative plural


baby

baby (indefinite nominative singular)
babys (genitive indefinite singular)
babyn (definite nominative singular)
babyns (definite genitive singular)
babys (indefinite nominative plural)
babies (indefinite nominative plural)
babys (genitive indefinite plural)
babies (genitive indefinite plural)