Dictionary
noun بابا / bâbâ
IPA: /bɒːbɒː/
From our corpus
بابا مهدی روزنامه نگاره.
bâbâ mahdi ruznâme negâre.
Papa Mahdi is a journalist,
بابا میخنده تو دلش پر از امیده.
bâbâ mixande tu deleš por az omide.
Dad is smiling. There is a lot of hope in his heart.
Wiktionary- dad, daddy, father
- grandpa, grandfather
- fellow
- When referring to older family members, both بزرگ (bozorg) and کلان (kalân) are correct, but the former is more common in Iran.
- When referring to older family members, both بزرگ (buzurg) and کلان (kalān) are correct, but the latter is more common in Afghanistan.
- In many dialects, cases of word final ـا (-ā) may be shortened to ـه (-a).
- In many dialects, all family names ending in ـه (-a) may have an epenthetic ـی (-y) added, e.g. عمه (amma) -> عمی (ammay) (unrelated to ezafe).