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ba

UK/bɑː/US/bɑ/

ba noun: a being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food. Also the abbreviation of bathroom.

Noun (1)

ba (plural bas)

  1. (Egyptian) A being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food.
    • Any ordinary person who has ever floated out of his body during a nap knows what a Ba is, but unfortunately the dogmas of our materialistic culture constrain the person to ignore and repress his experience.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 220
    • But the Ba, I remembered, could be seen as the mistress of your heart and might or might not decide to speak to you, just as the heart cannot always forgive.1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings

Noun (2)

ba (plural bas)

  1. (colloquial, singular-normally) Father, baba.

Noun (3)

ba (uncountable)

  1. (historical, singular-normally) A medieval football game played in parts of Scotland around Christmas and New Year.
    • The townsmen played ba often and clearly knew what they were doing.2011, Alistair Moffat, The Borders

Particle

Singapore[p˭ɑ˨]

ba

  1. (Manglish, Singlish, singular-normally) Used to indicate a tentative suggestion.
    • I think you should go see a doctor ba.
  2. (Manglish, Singlish, singular-normally) Used to indicate confident speculation.
    • rich pple in here... 15" Conti for 800? thats a little steep... same class as ps4s? / 18" tires about 600 to 750 bah...2024 June 7, Vegas, “Planning to get new Rims & Tyres”, in MyCarForum, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2024

Noun (4) capitalized: BA

BA (countable and uncountable, plural BAs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Bachelor of Arts.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of business analyst.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of breast augmentation.
  4. (Internet, abbreviation, initialism, security) Initialism of Basic Authentication.
  5. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of bathroom.
  6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of bongkrek acid.
  7. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of breathing apparatus.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: BA

BA

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of British Airways.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Buenos Aires: a province of Argentina.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism, overprint on British stamps) Initialism of British Administration (usually followed by a place name).
  4. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Bali: a province of Indonesia.
  5. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Bahia: a state of Brazil.

Adjective capitalized: BA

BA (comparative more BA, superlative most BA)

  1. (abbreviation, euphemistic, initialism) Initialism of badass.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Ba

IPA/ᵐba/

Ba

  1. A province of Fiji. Capital: Lautoka.

Noun (5) capitalized: Ba

Ba (plural Bas)

  1. (Japan, abbreviation) Abbreviation of bass guitar (of a rock band)

Also used as

ba is also the abbreviation of bathroom.

ba meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Telugu

ba in Hindi

बा

ba in Marathi

बा

ba in Urdu

با

ba in Telugu

బా
More languagesFewer languages
ba in Malayalam
ബാ
ba in Punjabi
ਬਾ
ba in Gujarati
બા
ba in Nepali
बा

Examples of ba in a sentence

  • Ba hovers over a stove in the well-lit room, glancing when he hears the creak underfoot.
  • It's one of the few and earliest documents available in Aln8ba8dwaw8gan, the Abenaki language.
  • The akh would later become the state achieved when the ba and ka are rejoined.

All 18 example sentences with ba

Forms of ba

Noun
pluralbas
alternative formba'
pluralBAs
alternative formB.A.
pluralBas
Particle
alternative formbah
Adjective
comparativemore BA
superlativemost BA

Plural of ba: bas

Origin of ba

Borrowed from Egyptian bꜣ, G53-Z1

The sound is very commonly made by infants, and is interpreted by parents as a reference to themselves.

From Mandarin 吧 (ba).

Phrases with ba

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Questions about ba

What does ba mean?
Ba means a being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food.
What is ba in Hindi?
Ba in Hindi is बा. See Ba meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is ba?
Ba can be a noun, a particle, a proper noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce ba?
Ba is pronounced /bɑː/ (UK).
What is the plural of ba?
The plural of ba is bas.

Words near ba in the dictionary

  1. b8
  2. b8ed
  3. b8ing
  4. b@
  5. b@s
  6. ba
  7. Ba Chúc
  8. ba construction
  9. ba da bing ba da boom
  10. Ba Duan Jin
  11. ba dum tish

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ba (page history and authors); BA (page history and authors); Ba (page history and authors); ba (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ba (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ba (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ba (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ba (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ba (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ba (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ba (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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