bàbá bàbá
noun
/bà.bá bà.bá/
àbá àbá (alternative), bàbábá (alternative), àbábá (alternative)
Definitions
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paternal grandfather
Related wordsbàbá ìyánounbàbá àgbà
Etymology
Reduplication of bàbá (“father's father”).
Component words
Possibly derived from
Each of these pages lists a word as built from it, spelled a little differently from this one — a different tone mark, or an underdot this word doesn't have.
Tone and underdots are what tell two Yorùbá words apart, so we can't say whether the other page meant this word and mistyped it, or meant a word that has no page here yet.
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àbánoun
“àbá” lists “ababa” as a word built from it. No word here is spelled that way, so this page was matched to it by ignoring tone marks. It may be a misspelling, or “ababa” may be a word nobody has written up yet.
àbá
father
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “baba baba”.
Reference:
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