baby (infant) · baby (term of endearment for a lover)
çekim: çoğul Babys · tamlayan Babys
eş: Säugling, Kind, Schatz, Liebling, Babe, Braut
köken: Mid-19th-century borrowing from English baby. The use as a term of endearment is a later borrowing from late-20th-century pop culture; it remains far more common in pop music than in real life.
eş: bambin, bout de chou, nourrisson, petit, petit bout, petit bout de chou
köken: Nickname given to Nicolas Ferry, renowned throughout Europe as the court dwarf of the Polish King Stanisław Leszczyński. Possibly derived from bab- (babiller, babine) rather than adapted from English baby, although this may have contributed to the diffusion of the word.
aile: bébé Cadum, dormir comme un bébé, jeter le bébé avec l'eau du bain, refiler le bébé
köken: From Caló chavó, from Romani ćhavo. Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀙𑀸𑀯 (chāva, “baby animal”), from Sanskrit *छाप (*chāpa). Cognate with Pali chāpa (“the young of an animal”) and Marathi छावा (chāvā, “cub”). Related to Portuguese chavalo and English chav and regional German Chabo.
aile: chavalo, chavalote
En el parque de las balas / Tardes y noches, fines de semanas / Con los chavales y con las chavalas
köken: From Proto-Turkic *bāla (“child”), which is etymologically related to baldız (“sister-in-law”). Cognate with Crimean Tatar bala, Uzbek bola, Turkish bala (dialectal), etc.
exclamation of surprise or disappointment; boy! · oh my, amazing
eş: jeetje
köken: According to the Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, the term is an evolution of the now obsolete interjections amij, amy or ammy (formed from ah and the personal pronoun mij; compare also French à moi), as an exclamation of sorrow or indignation, pain, aversion, pity, etc.
köken: From chłop + -ak. Originally from the Mazovian dialect, as there is a tendency to use the suffix -ak instead of -ę to create young nouns (compare Polish dziecię vs Polish dzieciak, źrebię vs źrebak). First attested in 1731.
köken: Most likely originated as the past participle of băia (“to care for an infant”), in which case possibly influenced by bărbat in derivation. Compare băiată (“girl”). Other theories suggest a connection to Medieval Latin balietus, from baietus (“page, serving boy”).
A direct male descendant. · A guy, a boy. · Possessor of (knowledge, ability, etc.)
çekim: çoğul בָּנִים
köken: From Proto-Semitic *bin-. The unchanged form can still be found as a construct in certain proper nouns like יְהוֹשֻׁעַ בִּן־נוּן (“Joshua son of Nun”) or בִּנְיָמִין (“Benjamin”).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *katelos Latin catul(us) Latin -aster Latin catulaster From catul(us) (“whelp”) + -aster (“expressing incomplete resemblance”).
a young creature · minor · young of animal or plant
çekim: çoğul anak-anak
köken: Inherited from Malay anak, from Classical Malay انق (anak), from Proto-Malayic *anak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *anak, from Proto-Austronesian *aNak.
aile: anak Adam, anak air, anak ajaib, Anak Allah, anak angkat, anak asuh, anak bapak, anak bawang, anak bedil, anak berkebutuhan khusus
From Proto-Finnic *poika, from Proto-Uralic *pojka. Cognate with Livvi poigu, Estonian poeg, poiss, Erzya пиё (pijo, “grandson”), буе (buje, “family line; area”), Udmurt пие (pije), Northern Khanty пох (poh), Northern Mansi пыг (pyg, “son, boy”) and Hungarian fiú. The Finnic word has also been borrowed into Baltic (such as Latvian puika) and Swedish (see the descendants below).