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

From French baie, from Late Latin baia, probably ultimately from Iberian or Basque badia.

• (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• báidh (superseded)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.

• bádhadh (obsolete)
• báthadh (Ulster)

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /bˠɑː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈbˠaːhuː/^[1] (corresponding to the form báthadh)

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

• 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

• 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

From Proto-Athabaskan *-aˑ.

• IPA^(key): /pɑ́/

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): /ˈbaː/

bá

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

·bá

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈβaː/

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”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “bá”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [ɓaː˧˥]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [ɓaː˦]

From Proto-Tai *ɓaːᴮ (“to spill”). Cognate with Nong Zhuang mbaq and Thai บ่า (bàa). Compare also Proto-Austronesian *baSaq (“flood; to overflow”) (whence Tagalog baha).

bá (Nôm form 𬇫)

1. to pour; to fall; to spill

   Bẳng nặm bá.

   The water pipe is leaking.

   Choóc lẩu bá bấu têm.

   Couldn't pour the glass of wine full.

• mốc bá

From Proto-Tai *C̥.baːᴮ (“shoulder”). Cognate with Northern Thai ᨷ᩵ᩤ, Lao ບ່າ (bā), Shan မႃႇ (màa) or ဝႃႇ (wàa), Tai Nüa ᥛᥣᥱ (mǎa), Ahom 𑜈𑜡 (bā), Zhuang mbaq, Thai บ่า (bàa). Compare Proto-Austronesian *qabaʀa (“shoulder”).

bá

1. shoulder

   tối bá ― switch shoulders

   đúc bá ― clavicle

   phiêng bá ― equal (in terms of age, height or condition)

   háp khẩu dú tềnh bá ― carry rice on one's shoulders

• Lương Bèn (2011), Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[1][2] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
• Dương Nhật Thanh; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[3] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]
• Léopold Michel Cadière (1910), Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎^[4] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

bá

1. to go

bá

1. hence

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaː˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaː˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaː˦˥]

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bá

1. to crash into; to hit

   Synonyms: tông, bang

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

   Synonyms: khoác, quàng

Sino-Vietnamese word from 伯.

bá

1. (dialectal) aunt, parent's elder sister

   Synonym: bác

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

   Synonym: bác

bá

1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 伯

This character is also read as bách.

bá

1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 百