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单词 baba
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baba1

(also rum baba)
noun ˈbɑːbɑːˈbɑˌbɑ
  • A small, rich sponge cake, typically soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.

    the cooked babas are hollowed out and filled with confectioners' custard
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Bring soaking liquor to the boil and drop the babas in, rolling them to soak all over and become bloated.
    • The rich, light, delicate yeast cake, made from flour, eggs, butter, and sugar, is related to brioche, baba, and savarin.
    • An alcohol-soaked rum cake similar to a baba au rhum that sat on a puree of orange with a whipped coconut cream was a decided runner-up.
    • Best of all, they have imported Italian rum babas soaking in glass jars.
    • Well, a rum baba and a treacle tart were atypically heavy.

Origin

Via French from Polish, literally 'married peasant woman'.

baba2

noun ˈbɑːbɑːˈbɑˌbɑ
Indian
  • 1Father (often as a proper name or as a familiar form of address)

    ‘Baba and I have squabbled.’
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Asked who this man was, the child mumbled proudly ‘Amaar baba (my father).’
    • She answered her father fearlessly: ‘Baba Saheb, you still wish to be revenged’.
    • When face-to-face, he would just call him baba (father).
    1. 1.1 A respectful form of address for an older man.
      ‘Sit down, baba, you like tea?’
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Note that baba, on its own, can independently refer to an old wise man.
      • Sit down, baba, you like tea?
    2. 1.2 A holy man (often as a proper name or form of address)
      Balyogi Baba was reputed to have been standing on one leg for eight years
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I am told he is a mauna baba (a holy man who has taken a vow of silence).
      • It is relevant here to mention those three Indian saints in recent history Kabir and Nanak and late Sai baba of Sirdi who did not found any religion based on divine revelation.
      • My father later explained that it was about this Baba (holy man) who would supposedly materialize objects from thin air.
      • Pray to Sun God and Sri Raghavendra or Shirdi baba on Thursdays.
      • In due time Baba's holy body was placed and preserved in the central shrine.
      • It was a framed picture of Shirdi Sai baba with his hand raised in blessing, lean and austere, with a white cloth tied around his head and a trimmed white beard.
      • Ghani's life takes a turn when he falls in love with a medico, Indu, living in an ashram there, run by a baba.
      • Not surprisingly, the one-armed baba and other members of the militant ascetic Juna Akhara sect are big fans of the Ram temple.
      • Look at the number of swamis, yogis, babas and even mendicants who have made a fortune in the western world, especially in America.
  • 2A child, especially a male one (often in names or as an affectionate form of address)

    ‘Remove the paper whenever you are ready, baba.’
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But officially sanctioned ‘dating’ and sexual intimacy - na baba na.
    • The babas (girls and boys) are barely three or four years old.

Origin

From Urdu bābā.

 
 

baba1

(also baba au rhum)
nounˈbäˌbäˈbɑˌbɑ
  • A small rich sponge cake, typically soaked in rum-flavored syrup.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Well, a rum baba and a treacle tart were atypically heavy.
    • Bring soaking liquor to the boil and drop the babas in, rolling them to soak all over and become bloated.
    • Best of all, they have imported Italian rum babas soaking in glass jars.
    • The rich, light, delicate yeast cake, made from flour, eggs, butter, and sugar, is related to brioche, baba, and savarin.
    • An alcohol-soaked rum cake similar to a baba au rhum that sat on a puree of orange with a whipped coconut cream was a decided runner-up.

Origin

Via French from Polish, literally ‘married peasant woman’.

baba2

nounˈbäˌbäˈbɑˌbɑ
Indian
  • 1Father (often as a proper name or as a familiar form of address).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Asked who this man was, the child mumbled proudly ‘Amaar baba (my father).’
    • When face-to-face, he would just call him baba (father).
    • She answered her father fearlessly: ‘Baba Saheb, you still wish to be revenged’.
    1. 1.1 A respectful form of address for an older man.
      “Sit down, baba, you like tea?”
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Sit down, baba, you like tea?
      • Note that baba, on its own, can independently refer to an old wise man.
    2. 1.2 A holy man (often as a proper name or form of address).
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Pray to Sun God and Sri Raghavendra or Shirdi baba on Thursdays.
      • Not surprisingly, the one-armed baba and other members of the militant ascetic Juna Akhara sect are big fans of the Ram temple.
      • It was a framed picture of Shirdi Sai baba with his hand raised in blessing, lean and austere, with a white cloth tied around his head and a trimmed white beard.
      • It is relevant here to mention those three Indian saints in recent history Kabir and Nanak and late Sai baba of Sirdi who did not found any religion based on divine revelation.
      • My father later explained that it was about this Baba (holy man) who would supposedly materialize objects from thin air.
      • Ghani's life takes a turn when he falls in love with a medico, Indu, living in an ashram there, run by a baba.
      • Look at the number of swamis, yogis, babas and even mendicants who have made a fortune in the western world, especially in America.
      • I am told he is a mauna baba (a holy man who has taken a vow of silence).
      • In due time Baba's holy body was placed and preserved in the central shrine.
  • 2A child, especially a male one (often in names or as an affectionate form of address).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The babas (girls and boys) are barely three or four years old.
    • But officially sanctioned ‘dating’ and sexual intimacy - na baba na.

Origin

From Urdu bābā.

 
 
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