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babai

babai

See also: babái and baba'i

Abenlen Ayta

Noun

babai

  1. woman

References

  • Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

Batad Ifugao

Noun

babāi

  1. woman
    • 2005, Manuel B. Dulawan Oral Literature of the Ifugao, page 64:
      Mabigat ya nakammodwong nan' babai.

References

  • ABVD
  • Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (as ba-bāi)

Central Bontoc

Alternative forms

Noun

babái

  1. woman, girl
    • 1970, Lawrence Andrew Reid, Central Bontoc: Sentence, Paragraph, and Discourse (SIL):
      Kanan nan aman nan babai en, ...
      said the father the girl quote, ...
      The father of the girl said, ...

Kankanaey

Alternative forms

  • babae (used by Atayoc, Guerzon and Tatpiec's 1976 Phrase Book for Central Kankanaey)

Noun

babái

  1. woman
    lalaki ya babai : man and woman

References

  • Janet L. Allen, A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis of Kankanaey (2011)
  • Din nanlogian di am-in (Kankanaey translation of the Biblical book of Genesis)

Kapampangan

Noun

babai (babái)

  1. woman
    malagung babai
    beautiful woman
    • 2005, Current Issues in Philippine Linguistics and Anthropology, page 340:
      (3) [Kapampangan]4
      a. Malagu ya ing babai.
      beautiful ABS.3SG DET.ABS.SG woman
      'The woman is beautiful.'
  2. sister

References

  • Leatrice T. Mirikitani, Speaking Kapampangan (1971) (sister)
  • Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (woman)

Portuguese

Verb

babai

  1. second-person plural imperative of babar

Tausug

Noun

babai

  1. woman

References

  • Carl R. Galvez Rubino, Intensive Tausug: A Pedagogical Grammar (2006)