babai

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman, female”).

babai

1. woman

• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman, female”).

babāi

1. woman
   • 2005, Manuel B. Dulawan, Oral Literature of the Ifugao, page 64:

     Mabigat ya nakammodwong nan' babai.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

• ABVD
• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (as ba-bāi)

• fafái

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman, female”).

babái

1. woman, girl
   • 1970, Lawrence Andrew Reid, Central Bontoc: Sentence, Paragraph, and Discourse (SIL):

     Kanan nan aman nan babai en, ...

     said the father the girl quote, ...

     The father of the girl said, ...

From Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from *bahi (“woman; female”).

• Hyphenation: ba‧ba‧i
• IPA^(key): /baˈbaʔi/, [bɐˈbaʔi]

babái

1. female

babái (plural babbai)

1. woman; female; girl
2. concubine; mistress

babai

1. woman

• babae (used by Atayoc, Guerzon and Tatpiec's 1976 Phrase Book for Central Kankanaey)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman, female”).

babái

1. woman

   lalaki ya babai : man and woman

• Janet L. Allen, A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis of Kankanaey (2011)
• Din nanlogian di am-in (Kankanaey translation of the Biblical book of Genesis)

• babay (obsolete, Abecedario)
• babayi

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman, female”).

• Hyphenation: ba‧ba‧i
• IPA^(key): /bəˈbai/, [bəˈbäː.i] (noun:woman)
• IPA^(key): /ˌbaˈbai/, [ˌbäːˈbäː.i] (noun:women)

babái

1. woman

   malagung babai

   beautiful woman

   • 2005, Current Issues in Philippine Linguistics and Anthropology, page 340:

     (3) [Kapampangan]⁴
     a. Malagu ya ing babai.
     beautiful ABS.3SG DET.ABS.SG woman
     'The woman is beautiful.'

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

2. sister

bábái

1. women

• Leatrice T. Mirikitani, Speaking Kapampangan (1971) (sister)
• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (woman)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *ba-bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman, female”).

babai

1. woman; female

babai

1. second-person plural imperative of babar

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahi.

babai

1. woman

• Carl R. Galvez Rubino, Intensive Tausug: A Pedagogical Grammar (2006)