baba

Definition of baba in English English dictionary: A father
Do not be disrespectful, son. Look at me. Baba, were you a Savaki?.; A baby, child
For my child is dead--my baba is dead!.; In baby talk, often used for a variety of words beginning with b, such as bottle or blanket
Oh, it's storytime! Let me get my baba.; An old woman, especially a traditional old woman from an eastern European culture
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.; A holy man, a spiritual leader
Most babas had little contact with written culture and are not therefore named in books and treatises.; A grandmother
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;.; A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup; {i} ancient Sumerian goddess; {i} small spongelike leavened cake usually containing raisins and rum, rum baba; (Slang) respectful form of address for an older man; (Slang) child; A French and Italian small sweet cake made from enriched yeast dough, often flavored with candied fruits, and soaked with a rum or Kirschwasser syrup after baking This dough is also used to make the larger savarin; a small cake leavened with yeast; A term of affection for a Saint or holy man; Religious master or father; term of respect; In baby talk, often used for a variety of words beginning with "b", such as "bottle" or "blanket"; A kind of plum cake; a term of affection for a saint or holy man meaning "father"
Baba Mustafa: A fictional old tailor who is paid, blindfolded and subsequently stitches the parts of the dead body of Cassim together without recognizing him in the classic tale Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Baba Yaga: In Russian tales, a hag who flies through the air in a mortar, using the pestle as a rudder
baba au rhum: A particular type of cake flavored with rum
baba au rhum: A special type of lingerie, with garter extensions leading to a high midriff
baba ganoush: A Lebanese dish made from a purée of roasted aubergine, garlic and tahini used as a dip etc
baba ghanoush: Alternative spelling of baba ganoush
baba au rhum: (Gıda) A rum baba or baba au rhum is a small yeast cake saturated in liquor, usually rum, and sometimes filled with whipped cream or pastry cream. It is most typically made in individual servings (about a 2" tall slightly tapered cylinder) but sometimes can be made in larger forms similar to those used for Bundt cakes
Baba Bathra: third in a series of Talmudic tractates concerning damages (Judaism)
Baba Kamma: first in a series of Talmudic tractates concerning damages (Judaism)
Baba Matziah: second in a series of Talmudic tractates concerning damages (Judaism)
Baba Metziah: second in a series of Talmudic tractates concerning damages (Judaism)
baba au rhum: a baba soaked in rum
Ali Baba: A fictional character featured in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves of The Arabian Nights, famous for his encounter with the Forty Thieves and their treasure trove cave that opens on the command "open sesame"
Ali Baba: An ethnic slur used by occupational soldiers for a native of Iraq
Ali Baba: An extremely lucky person, especially one who acquires a large fortune by luck or by chance
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: A classic tale of medieval Arabic literature where the honest protagonist Ali Baba defeats the Forty Thieves whose robberies were in a cave that automatically opens and seals itself, respectively, on the commands Open Sesame and Close Sesame
rum baba: (Gıda) A rum baba or baba au rhum is a small yeast cake saturated in liquor, usually rum, and sometimes filled with whipped cream or pastry cream. It is most typically made in individual servings (about a 2" tall slightly tapered cylinder) but sometimes can be made in larger forms similar to those used for Bundt cakes
Ali Baba: poor woodcutter who entered the cave of the forty thieves by means of the magic words "Open Sesame" (from one of the stories in "The Arabian Nights")
Ali Baba: the main character in a story called Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, from The Arabian Nights. Ali Baba sees 40 thieves enter a secret cave (=a large hole in the side of a cliff or under the ground) by saying the magic words "Open Sesame", which makes a door in the cliff open. He repeats these words, enters the cave, and takes some of the gold that the thieves keep there
Meher Baba: orig. Merwan Sheriar Irani born Feb. 25, 1894, Poona, India died Jan. 31, 1969, Ahmednagar Indian spiritual master. Born into a Zoroastrian family of Persian descent, he created a system of spiritual beliefs according to which the goal of life was to realize the oneness of God, from whom the whole universe emanates. Convinced that his calling was to awaken the world to that realization through love, he worked zealously with the poor and the physically and mentally ill. Though he attracted a sizable following in India and abroad, he did not try to establish a religion. For the last 44 years of his life he maintained silence, communicating by means of gestures and an alphabet board. His tomb at Meherabad is a place of pilgrimage
ali baba: the fictional woodcutter who discovered that `open sesame' opened a cave in the Arabian Nights' Entertainments

Turkish - Turkish

Definition of baba in Turkish Turkish dictionary: Çocuğun dünyaya gelmesinde etken olan erkek: "Türk babanın ve Türk ananın çocuğu Türktür."- Anayasa. Çocuğu olmuş erkek; Anlayışlı, iyi huylu erkek; Bir ülkeye veya bir topluluğa yararlı olmuş kimse; Tarikatların bazısında tekke büyüğü; Bu gibi kimselere verilen unvan; Bir merdivende, tırabzanın sahanlıkla birleştiği yerde bulunan dikey öge. Çatı merteği; Ata: "Asya'daki babalarımızdan miras kalan millî şiirimizin manzum şekillerinde..."- Y. K. Beyatlı; öfke, kızgınlık, hınç; Gemi veya iskelede halatın takıldığı yuvarlak başlı, iri demir, ağaç veya beton dikme; Çocuğu olmuş erkek; Çatı merteği; Gemi halatlarının bağlandığı iskelelerde bulunan büyük demir düzenekler; Yaratıcı, kurucu kimse; Kazılarda çıkarılan toprağın miktarını hesaplayabilmek için yer yer bırakılan toprak dikme; Silah kaçakçılığı, kara para aklama ve uyuşturucu madde ticareti gibi kirli ve gizli işler yapan çetenin başı. Çok kaliteli, üstün nitelikli; Kirli işler yapan çetenin başı; Denizli'de bir dağ; Çocuğun dünyaya gelmesinde etken olan erkek; Mayalı hamurla yapılan, alkolle tatlandırılmış Polonya pastası; Silâh kaçakçılığı, kara para aklama ve uyuşturucu madde ticareti gibi kirli ve gizli işler yapan çetenin başı; Makedonya Cumhuriyeti'nde bulunan bir dağ; Halat volta etmek için ağaç veya metalden yapılmış silindirik biçimde güverte veya rıhtıma bağlanmış bir eleman; Ata; Kazılarda çıkan toprağın miktarını hesaplayabilmek için yer yer bırakılan toprak dikme; Afganistan'da bir dağ; Koruyucu, babalık duyguları ile dolu kimse; peder; (Osmanlı Dönemi) VESİLE; (Hukuk) VALİD; (Osmanlı Dönemi) vâlid
baba adam: Yaşlı, ağırbaşlı, iyi yürekli, olgun adam
baba bucağı: Baba ocağı
baba evi: Orhan Kemal'in babası ile sürgünde geçen yıllarını anlattığı ilk otobiyografik romanı(1949)
baba evi: Baba ocağı
baba hindi: İri ve iyi beslenmiş erkek hindi
baba mirası: Babadankalan değerli mal veya dost
baba nasihati: Büyüklerin deneyimine dayanarak gençlere verdikleri öğüt
baba ocağı: Babadan, dededen kalma mülk veya bir kimsenin içinde doğup büyüdüğü, yaşadığı ev, toprak ya da yurt, baba evi, baba bucağı, baba yurdu
baba olmak: Erkek, çocuk sahibi olmak
baba tatlısı: Bir çeşit hamur tatlısı, şambaba
baba yadigarı: Babadan kalan, baba döneminde yapılmış, babanın hatırasını taşıyan
baba yurdu: Baba ocağı
rum baba: (Gıda) Şambaba tatlısı
Noel baba: Hristiyan çocuklarına Noel gecesi gelip kendilerine armağan bıraktığı anlatılan ak sakallı masal ve efsane kahramanı
adem baba: İnsanlığın babası, Hz. Âdem
ana baba: Ana ile babanın oluşturduğu birlik
ana baba günü: Sıkıntılı kalabalık, telâşlı, tehlikeli zaman, yer veya durum
ana baba günü: Çok kalabalık
büyük baba: Annenin veya babanın babası, dede, büyük peder
devlet baba: Devlet
geyikli baba: Kuruluş yıllarında büyük yararlılıklar gösteren ve Bursa'da külliyesi bulunan ünlü Türkmen dervişi
kayın baba: Kaynata
otman baba: Balkanlar'ın Türkleşmesinde büyük emeği geçen ünlü Bektaşi şeyhi
âdem baba: Parasız, aç, en kötü durumdaki mahkûm
âdem baba: Hayatta hiçbir şeyi olmayan kimse
âdem baba: Afyonkeş
çandır baba: Sivas'ta çocukların yağmur yağması için yaptıkları törende taşıdıkları kukla adama verilen ad
üvey baba: Öz olmayan baba, babalık

English - Turkish

Definition of baba in English Turkish dictionary
baba dessert: (Gıda) şambaba tatlısı

baba

Hyphenation

ba·ba

Pronunciation

Etymology

[ bä-(")bä, -b& ] (noun.) 1826. As one of the first utterances many babies are able to say, baba (like mama, papa, and dada) has come to be used in many languages as a term for various family members: * father: Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Hindi, Bengali, Persian, Swahili, Turkish * grandmother: many Slavic language (such as Bulgarian, Russian and Polish), Yiddish, Japanese * baby: Afrikaans These terms often continue to be used by English speakers whose families came from one of these cultures. In some cases, they may become more widely used in localities that have been heavily influenced by an immigrant community. Some senses were extensions of one of these family terms in the original languages ("old woman" from "grandmother", "holy man" from "father"). The "cake" sense comes through French from Polish baba (“old woman”). The Middle Eastern word baba (as in Ali Baba) is rather a term of endearment, and is ultimately derived from Persian بابا (bābā, “father”) (from Old Persian pāpa; as opposed to the Arabic words ابو (’ábu) and أب (’ab), as well as the Turkish word ata; see also Papak) , and is linguistically related to the common European word papa and the word pope, having the same Indo-European origin.