babine

babine (uncountable)

1. A sparkling alcoholic drink from Zaire, made from avocado leaves.

babine

1. woman

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

babine

1. old woman

• babin (“woman”)

• David Wakefield, Grammar Notes on Arifama-Miniafia (available: 2011, created: 1975)
• Stanley Oyabua, Alfred Urasabey (authors), Venessa Sogiri (facilitator), Tentative Grammar Description for the Miniafia-Oyan [Min] Language (2016)

babine

1. woman

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

• babouine

From Middle French babine (“lip”), probably of Germanic origin, compare dialectal German Bäppe (“lips, muzzle”), Middle High German beffen (“to scold, bicker”). Compare also French babouin.

• IPA^(key): /ba.bin/

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babine f (plural babines)

1. prominent or pendulous animal lip (of camel, monkey etc.)
2. (colloquial) (human) lip

• “babine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

babine

1. woman

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)