ba'

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

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

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