bá

bá

1. to marry

• Mark Van de Velde, A Grammar of Eton (2008, →ISBN

bá

1. arm
2. hand

• R. Blench, Comparative Ogonic

An abbreviation of bácsi or bátya.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaː]

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• Rhymes: -baː

bá (plural bák)

1. (informal) uncle

   Hogy van, Józsi bá? ― How are you uncle Joe?

• bácsi
• bátya

• bá in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• bá in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

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• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /bˠɑː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /bˠaː/

bá f (genitive singular bá, nominative plural bánna)

1. (geography) bay
2. expanse (of sea)
3. strip (of thatch)
4. swath

• (bay): cuan

From Middle Irish báid.

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /bˠɑː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /bˠaː/

bá f (genitive singular bá)

1. sympathy, liking

• báidh (superseded)

• bách
• bámhar
• báúil (“sympathetic, well-disposed”, adjective)

From Old Irish bádud.

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /bˠɑː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈbˠaːhu/[1]

bá m (genitive singular as verbal noun báite, as substantive bá)

1. verbal noun of báigh
2. drowning
3. immersion, inundation
4. submergence
5. quenching
6. (linguistics) elision

As verbal noun

As substantive

• bádhadh (obsolete)

• bileog bháite f (“(leaf of) waterlily”)
• focalbhá m (“ellipsis”)

bá

1. present subjunctive indicative of báigh

• bádha (obsolete)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

• bai (Sotavento)

From Portuguese vai (the third-person singular of ir (to go).

bá

1. (Barlavento)to go

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN
• Veiga, Manuel (2012) Dicionário Caboverdiano-Português, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *p/ba (“male; father”), cognate with Chinese 爸 (bà).

• IPA^(key): /ba/

bá

1. father

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

• ba — nonstandard

bá (ba², Zhuyin ㄅㄚˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 叐
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 坺
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 墢／𫭨
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 妭
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 抜
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 拔
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 渿
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 炦
9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 犮
10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 癭／瘿
11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 秡
12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 胈
13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 茇
14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 菝
15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 詙
16. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 跋
17. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 軷／𫐈
18. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鈸／钹
19. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 钹
20. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 颰／𩙥
21. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 馛
22. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 魃
23. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鼥
24. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 㔜

bá

1. for him/her/it/them, for his/her/its/their sake
2. in his/her/its/their favor

   bá yáʼátʼééh ― it is good for him/her/it/them

   bá áshłééh ― I’m making it for him/her/it/them

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): [baː]

bá

1. first-person singular preterite absolute of at·tá

·bá

1. first/second-person singular preterite conjunct of at·tá

• IPA^(key): [va(ː)]

bá

1. Alternative form of fa (“or”)

• Rhymes: -a

bá f (plural bás)

1. (Brazil) Alternative form of babá

bá!

1. (Rio Grande do Sul) expression of surprise

• bah

bá

1. to go

bá

1. hence

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaː˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaː˨˩˦]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaː˦˥]

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 伯.

bá

1. (only in compounds) paternal uncle, father's elder brother

bá

1. (dialectal) aunt, parent's elder sister
2. (dialectal) paternal aunt-in-law, father's elder brother's wife

• bác

Sino-Vietnamese word from 百. This character is also read as bách.

bá

1. (Southern Vietnam, only in compounds) hundred

bá

1. to crash into; to hit

   Synonyms: tông, bang

2. (arms around the neck) to embrace; to hug