baa

Compare German bäh, mäh; an imitative word.

• bah (obsolete)

• (UK) IPA^(key): [bɑː]
• (US) IPA^(key): [bæ], [bɑ]
• IPA^(key): [bæ̰ː], [bæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀ]

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• Rhymes: -ɑː, -æ
• Homophones: bah, bar (in some pronunciations)

baa (plural baas)

1. (onomatopoeia) The characteristic cry or bleating of a sheep.

• bleat
• bleating

• baa-lamb

baa

1. (onomatopoeia) The characteristic cry of a sheep.

baa (third-person singular simple present baas, present participle baaing, simple past and past participle baaed)

1. To make the characteristic cry of a sheep.
   • a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, →OCLC:

     He treble baas for help, but none can get.

   • 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 44:

     The lamb bunted several irresponsive objects - never its dam's udder - baaing listlessly.

From Arabic بَاء (bāʔ).

baa (plural baas)

1. The letter ب in the Arabic script.

• A.B.A., AAB, ABA, Aba, aba

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaː/, [ˈbaː]
• Hyphenation: baa

báa m 

1. Apocopic form of babba

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 143

• IPA^(key): /bꜜáà/

baa

1. river, sea

• Moi, Daniel Rabbi and Mario Lau Babur Kuduku, Sister Mary Mangira Michael, Simon Hagimir John, Rapheal Zakenia Paul Mafoi, Nyoul Gulluma Kuduku. 2018. Bongo – English Dictionary. Juba, South Sudan. SIL-South Sudan.

baa (plural bahi)

1. dog

• bakɔha
• baluli
• bawahiriga
• batɔha
• zɔbaa

• IPA^(key): /baː/

baa

1. hip

• Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay Yuwaalayaay Dictionary 2003

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahaq, from Proto-Austronesian *baSaq.

bahâ

1. flood

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahaq.

baa

1. to flood

baa f

1. genitive singular of booa

baa

1. even

baa

1. about him/her/it/them
2. to him/her/it/them
3. into him/her/it/them

   baa níʼą́ ― I gave it to him

In pronunciation, the postposition baa is assimilated by an initial yi- of a following verb to make beei-: baa yishdloh = /beeishdloh/ (I am laughing at him). This does not affect the spelling, however.

• paa

baa

1. (Eastern Shoshone) water

• Eastern Shoshone Working Dictionary

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Borrowed from Arabic بِغَاء (biḡāʔ).

baa (ma class, plural mabaa)

1. evil, plague
2. danger, misfortune

Borrowed from English bar.

baa (n class, plural baa)

1. a bar (social pub for alcoholic drinks)

• IPA^(key): /ɓaː/

baa

1. head

• Anceaux, Johannes C. (1987) Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia), Dordrecht: Foris