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ba

nounnounnounnounparticlecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//bɑː//
  • United Kingdom//bɔː//
  • United States//bɑ//
  • /[p˭ɑ˨]/

A being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food.

noun

  1. 1

    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.

    But the Ba, I remembered, could be seen as the mistress of your heart and might or might not decide to speak to you, just as the heart cannot always forgive.

Etymology

Borrowed from Egyptian bꜣ, G53-Z1

noun

  1. 1

    Father, baba.

Etymology

The sound is very commonly made by infants, and is interpreted by parents as a reference to themselves.

noun

  1. 1

    historicalA medieval football game played in parts of Scotland around Christmas and New Year.

    The townsmen played ba often and clearly knew what they were doing.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of bathroomAbbreviation of bathroom.

    2 beds, 1 ba

particle

  1. 1

    Used to indicate a tentative suggestion.

    I think you should go see a doctor ba.

  2. 2

    Used to indicate confident speculation.

    rich pple in here... 15" Conti for 800? thats a little steep... same class as ps4s? / 18" tires about 600 to 750 bah...

Etymology

From Mandarin 吧 (ba).

Forms

plural
bas
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).