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baing

baing is the present participle and gerund of ba.

Meaning of ba

Noun

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

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Questions about baing

What is baing the present participle and gerund of?
Baing is the present participle and gerund of ba.

Words near baing in the dictionary

  1. Bainbridge Island
  2. Bainbridges
  3. Baine
  4. Baine Harbour
  5. Baines
  6. baing
  7. baingan
  8. baingans
  9. bainin
  10. Baining
  11. Bainings

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