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 Proto-Turkic *bāla (“child”), which is etymologically related to baldız (“sister-in-law”). Cognate with Crimean Tatar bala, Uzbek bola, Turkish bala (dialectal), etc.
A child · One's son or daughter, regardless of age. · A baby, infant
köken: From Proto-Turkic *bāla (“child”). Cognate with Kazakh бала (bala), Kyrgyz бала (bala), Crimean Tatar bala, Kumyk бала (bala), Shor пала, Western Yugur mïla, etc.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *bāla. Cognate with Kazakh бала (bala), Kyrgyz бала (bala), Crimean Tatar bala, Kumyk бала (bala), Shor пала, Western Yugur mïla, 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”).