Baba vs James - What's the difference?
baba | james |
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)
(biblical) The twentieth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the general epistle of James.
One of two Apostles, .
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popular since the Middle Ages. Also a common middle name.
* 1810 :
* 1979 , Dateline America, Harcourt Brace Jovanocich, ISBN 0151239576, page 184:
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is papa.As an adverb james is
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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 .
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Proper noun
(en proper noun) (Epistle of James)- Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James' the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; ' James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus; Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
- And Normans call me James' Fitz-' James . / Thus watch I o'er insulted laws, / Thus learn to right the injured cause.
- Heaven only knows why a man with a strong biblical name like James wants to be a president named Jimmy.