English Explanatory Dictionary

ba

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food.
noun
  1. Father, baba.
noun
  1. A medieval football game played in parts of Scotland around Christmas and New Year.
noun
  1. Abbreviation of bathroom.
particle
  1. Used to indicate a tentative suggestion.
  2. Used to indicate confident speculation.
noun
  1. Initialism of Bachelor of Arts.
  2. Initialism of business analyst.
  3. Initialism of breast augmentation.
  4. Initialism of Basic Authentication.
  5. Abbreviation of bathroom.
  6. Initialism of bongkrek acid.
  7. Initialism of breathing apparatus.
name
  1. Initialism of British Airways.
  2. Initialism of Buenos Aires: a province of Argentina.
  3. Initialism of British Administration (usually followed by a place name).
  4. Abbreviation of Bali: a province of Indonesia.
  5. Abbreviation of Bahia: a state of Brazil.
adj
  1. Initialism of bad-ass.
name
  1. A province of Fiji. Capital: Lautoka.
noun
  1. Abbreviation of bass guitar (of a rock band)

Pronunciation

[p˭ɑ˨] /ᵐba/

Word forms

ba bas ba' bah B.A. more BA most BA

Etymology

Borrowed from Egyptian bꜣ, G53-Z1

Related words

BA what lah1–14 lor2–3 lor1 ah6 leh1–2 mah leh3–6 one1–3 hor1 know nia only sia hor2 ah1–3 hah1–3 meh ba2 leh7–11 ba1 liao already Gupta A. F. (1992) in volume 18 number 1 →DOI ba-dum-ching ba-dum-tss
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