"babă" meaning in Romanian

See babă in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ˈba.bə] Audio: LL-Q7913 (ron)-Filosoful-babă.wav
Rhymes: -abə Etymology: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic баба (baba), from Proto-Slavic *baba (“old woman”). Etymology templates: {{bor+|ro|cu|баба}} Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic баба (baba), {{der|ro|sla-pro|*baba||old woman}} Proto-Slavic *baba (“old woman”) Head templates: {{ro-noun|f|babe|sort=baba~}} babă f (plural babe) Inflection templates: {{ro-decl-noun|g=f|gpd=babelor|gpi=babe|gsd=babei|gsi=babe|n=|npd=babele|npi=babe|nsd=baba|nsi=babă|vp=babelor|vs=babă|vs2=babo}} Forms: babe [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], babă [accusative, indefinite, nominative, singular], baba [accusative, definite, nominative, singular], babe [accusative, indefinite, nominative, plural], babele [accusative, definite, nominative, plural], babe [error-unrecognized-form, indefinite, singular], babei [definite, error-unrecognized-form, singular], babe [error-unrecognized-form, indefinite, plural], babelor [definite, error-unrecognized-form, plural], babă [singular, vocative], babo [singular, vocative], babelor [plural, vocative]
  1. old woman Tags: feminine Synonyms: bătrână, vârstnică
    Sense id: en-babă-ro-noun-m7ggBMhg Categories (other): Female people Disambiguation of Female people: 100 0 0 0
  2. (regional) grandmother Tags: feminine, regional
    Sense id: en-babă-ro-noun-wE2HqnCn Categories (other): Regional Romanian
  3. (regional) midwife Tags: feminine, regional
    Sense id: en-babă-ro-noun-KrH2-BCj Categories (other): Regional Romanian, Romanian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Romanian entries with incorrect language header: 26 9 56 9
  4. coward Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-babă-ro-noun-oZPSyZ-5
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: fată bătrână, moș

Inflected forms

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    {
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        "1": "ro",
        "2": "cu",
        "3": "баба"
      },
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      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ro",
        "2": "sla-pro",
        "3": "*baba",
        "4": "",
        "5": "old woman"
      },
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      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic баба (baba), from Proto-Slavic *baba (“old woman”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "babe",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ro-noun-f-ă",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "babă",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baba",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "babe",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "babele",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "babe",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "babei",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "error-unrecognized-form",
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        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "babă",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "babo",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "babelor",
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      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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    }
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        "n": "",
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        "nsi": "babă",
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        "vs2": "babo"
      },
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    }
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  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "fată bătrână"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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    }
  ],
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        }
      ],
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        "old woman"
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "old woman",
          "old woman"
        ]
      ],
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        {
          "word": "bătrână"
        },
        {
          "word": "vârstnică"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
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      ],
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        ],
        [
          "grandmother",
          "grandmother"
        ]
      ],
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        "(regional) grandmother"
      ],
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      ]
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          "_dis": "26 9 56 9",
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          "name": "Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
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        }
      ],
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      ],
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      "links": [
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        ],
        [
          "midwife",
          "midwife"
        ]
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        "(regional) midwife"
      ],
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        "feminine",
        "regional"
      ]
    },
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      "glosses": [
        "coward"
      ],
      "id": "en-babă-ro-noun-oZPSyZ-5",
      "links": [
        [
          "coward",
          "coward"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "[ˈba.bə]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-abə"
    },
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    }
  ],
  "word": "babă"
}
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    "Pages with entries",
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    "Rhymes:Romanian/abə/2 syllables",
    "Romanian countable nouns",
    "Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
    "Romanian feminine nouns",
    "Romanian lemmas",
    "Romanian nouns",
    "Romanian terms borrowed from Old Church Slavonic",
    "Romanian terms derived from Old Church Slavonic",
    "Romanian terms derived from Proto-Slavic",
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      },
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    },
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    {
      "form": "babe",
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        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "babă",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "baba",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "babe",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "babele",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "babe",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "babei",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "babe",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "babelor",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "babă",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "babo",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "babelor",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
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        "sort": "baba~"
      },
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    }
  ],
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        "gpd": "babelor",
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        "gsi": "babe",
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        "npi": "babe",
        "nsd": "baba",
        "nsi": "babă",
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        "vs2": "babo"
      },
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "Romanian",
  "lang_code": "ro",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "fată bătrână"
    },
    {
      "word": "moș"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "old woman"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "old woman",
          "old woman"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bătrână"
        },
        {
          "word": "vârstnică"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Regional Romanian"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "grandmother"
      ],
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        [
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        ],
        [
          "grandmother",
          "grandmother"
        ]
      ],
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        "(regional) grandmother"
      ],
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        "feminine",
        "regional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Regional Romanian"
      ],
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        "midwife"
      ],
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          "regional",
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        ],
        [
          "midwife",
          "midwife"
        ]
      ],
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        "(regional) midwife"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "regional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "coward"
      ],
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        [
          "coward",
          "coward"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "[ˈba.bə]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-abə"
    },
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    }
  ],
  "word": "babă"
}

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