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baft

baft is the alternative form of abaft.

baft is the alternative form of bafta.

Meaning of abaft

Preposition

abaft

  1. Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of.
    • The captain stood abaft the wheelhouse.
    Synonyms:
    abaft of

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Meaning of bafta

Noun

bafta (countable and uncountable, plural baftas)

  1. A coarse material, usually of cotton, originally made in India.
    • But really I have never heard that the up-country vrouwen were in such a violent hurry for baftas and punjums but what the ox-wagons and local stores there could keep them supplied.1968, R[alph] N[ixon] Currey, editor, Letters and Other Writings of a Natal Sheriff, Thomas Phipson 1815-76, Cape Town: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 171
  2. An imitation of this fabric.

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Forms of baft

Adverb
comparativemore baft
superlativemost baft
Noun
pluralbafts

Questions about baft

What is baft the alternative form of?
Baft is the alternative form of abaft.

Words near baft in the dictionary

  1. bafinivirus
  2. bafiniviruses
  3. bafla
  4. bafoon
  5. Bafoussam
  6. baft
  7. bafta
  8. baftae
  9. baftaes
  10. baftah
  11. baftahs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: baft (page history and authors); abaft (page history and authors); bafta (page history and authors). 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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