babë

See also: babe

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *baba, from Proto-Indo-European *baba (“barbaric speech”). Compare Middle High German babe, bobe (“old woman, mother”), German Bube (“boy, child, lad”), Old Church Slavonic баба (baba, “old woman”), Italian babbo (“father,dad”).

Noun

babë m

father, daddy

Related terms

bebë

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