Dad vs Baba - What's the difference?
dad | baba |
(label) A father, a male parent.
(label) (non-gloss definition, Used to address one's father)
(label) (Used to address an older adult male)
A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.
A grandmother.
* 1993 , Karen Dubinsky, Improper Advances: Rape and Heterosexual Conflict in Ontario, 1880-1929 , University of Chicago Press
* 2001 , Brattleboro Remembers , edited by the Brattleboro [Vermont] Historical Society, Arcadia Publishing
* 2004 , A Woman's Europe: True Stories , edited by MaryBeth Bond
An old woman, especially a traditional old woman from an eastern European culture.
* 1914 , Russell Sage Foundation, Wage-earning Pittsburgh
* 1986 , Janice Kulyk Keefer, The Paris-Napoli Express
* 2003 , Food Tourism Around The World: Development, Management and Markets , edited by Colin Michael Hall and Liz Sharples
A father.
* 1849 , Edward Bulwer Lytton, The Caxtons
* 1998 , Mulan (movie)
* 2002 , Bend It Like Beckham (movie)
* 2003 , House of Sand and Fog (movie)
A holy man, a spiritual leader.
* 1995 , Hugh J.M. Johnston and Tara Singh Bains, The Four Quarters of the Night: The Life-Journey of an Emigrant Sikh
* 2004 , Andrew Robinson, Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker
* 2006 , Suraiya Faroqhi, Subjects Of The Sultan: Culture And Daily Life In The Ottoman Empire
(India, dated) A baby, child.
* 1876 , Sir George Otto Trevelyan, The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay
* 1904 , Rudyard Kipling, Traffics and Discoveries
In baby talk, often used for a variety of words beginning with b'', such as ''bottle'' or ''blanket .
* 2004 , House (TV, episode 1.14)
As nouns the difference between dad and baba
is that dad is a father, a male parent while baba is a kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.As a proper noun Dad
is one's father.As an initialism DAD
is a designation on prerecorded compact discs indicating that the contents were recorded in digital but mixed in analog before being mastered to a digital medium; compare AAD, ADD, DDD.dad
English
(wikipedia dad)Alternative forms
* , DadNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (a father) * (sense, used to address one's father familiarly) dada, daddy, pa, Pa, papa, pop, Pop, , pappa, pater, paw * (used to address an older adult male) daddio, pop, popsSee also
* mum, mom * sireAnagrams
* English palindromes ----baba
English
Noun
(en noun)- My baba , Ksenia Dubinsky, tells me that my education makes her proud.
- I walked first for my grandmother, and my mother was sorry she had missed my first steps. My Baba was so proud, my mother later told me.
- As we made eye contact, I slowly began to wonder if she was Baba . I did not know my grandmother though I'd spoken with her several times on the telephone;
- Only two women, typical "babas " (peasant women) in the house from which I got my quilt and bedcloth, could be coaxed to pose;
- Laura hadn't known that anyone's mother could look like that, like the babas you sometimes saw downtown, bandaged in kerchiefs and aprons, sitting toothless in stockinged feet on small verandahs, peeling potatoes or beets or just shaking their heads and grimacing.
- According to some, new volunteers are becoming more difficult to recruit and there are dark suggestions that 'money is being made on the backs of the babas' , the dedicated, but ageing ladies who still spend countless hours of their time preparing foodstuffs for the occasion.
- The first time I signed my exercise I wrote "Pisistratus Caxton" in my best round-hand. "And dey call your baba a scholar!" said the Doctor, contemptuously.
- "The greatest gift and honor is having you for a daughter. I've missed you so." "I've missed you too, baba ."
- Okay. Okay. Fine, baba . Let's just do it before something else goes wrong.
- "Do not be disrespectful, son. Look at me." "Baba , were you a Savaki?"
- While I was in Port Alberni, three babas came to Canada to raise money ...
- But according to Ray, 'all the babas my uncle knew were genuine. None of them was exposed. They were fairly humble people, not show-offs like the Maharishi ...
- Most babas had little contact with written culture and are not therefore named in books and treatises.
- That is to say, if I do not take care, I shall go on calling my darling 'Baba'' till she is as old as her mamma, and has a dozen ' Babas of her own.
- For my child is dead--my baba is dead!
- Oh, it's storytime! Let me get my baba .