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noun ˈbɑːbɑːˈbɑˌbɑ A small, rich sponge cake, typically soaked in rum-flavoured syrup. the cooked babas are hollowed out and filled with confectioners' custard Example sentencesExamples - Bring soaking liquor to the boil and drop the babas in, rolling them to soak all over and become bloated.
- The rich, light, delicate yeast cake, made from flour, eggs, butter, and sugar, is related to brioche, baba, and savarin.
- An alcohol-soaked rum cake similar to a baba au rhum that sat on a puree of orange with a whipped coconut cream was a decided runner-up.
- Best of all, they have imported Italian rum babas soaking in glass jars.
- Well, a rum baba and a treacle tart were atypically heavy.
Origin Via French from Polish, literally 'married peasant woman'. noun ˈbɑːbɑːˈbɑˌbɑ Indian 1Father (often as a proper name or as a familiar form of address) ‘Baba and I have squabbled.’ Example sentencesExamples - Asked who this man was, the child mumbled proudly ‘Amaar baba (my father).’
- She answered her father fearlessly: ‘Baba Saheb, you still wish to be revenged’.
- When face-to-face, he would just call him baba (father).
- 1.1 A respectful form of address for an older man.
‘Sit down, baba, you like tea?’ Example sentencesExamples - Note that baba, on its own, can independently refer to an old wise man.
- Sit down, baba, you like tea?
- 1.2 A holy man (often as a proper name or form of address)
Balyogi Baba was reputed to have been standing on one leg for eight years Example sentencesExamples - I am told he is a mauna baba (a holy man who has taken a vow of silence).
- It is relevant here to mention those three Indian saints in recent history Kabir and Nanak and late Sai baba of Sirdi who did not found any religion based on divine revelation.
- My father later explained that it was about this Baba (holy man) who would supposedly materialize objects from thin air.
- Pray to Sun God and Sri Raghavendra or Shirdi baba on Thursdays.
- In due time Baba's holy body was placed and preserved in the central shrine.
- It was a framed picture of Shirdi Sai baba with his hand raised in blessing, lean and austere, with a white cloth tied around his head and a trimmed white beard.
- Ghani's life takes a turn when he falls in love with a medico, Indu, living in an ashram there, run by a baba.
- Not surprisingly, the one-armed baba and other members of the militant ascetic Juna Akhara sect are big fans of the Ram temple.
- Look at the number of swamis, yogis, babas and even mendicants who have made a fortune in the western world, especially in America.
2A child, especially a male one (often in names or as an affectionate form of address) ‘Remove the paper whenever you are ready, baba.’ Example sentencesExamples - But officially sanctioned ‘dating’ and sexual intimacy - na baba na.
- The babas (girls and boys) are barely three or four years old.
nounˈbäˌbäˈbɑˌbɑ A small rich sponge cake, typically soaked in rum-flavored syrup. Example sentencesExamples - Well, a rum baba and a treacle tart were atypically heavy.
- Bring soaking liquor to the boil and drop the babas in, rolling them to soak all over and become bloated.
- Best of all, they have imported Italian rum babas soaking in glass jars.
- The rich, light, delicate yeast cake, made from flour, eggs, butter, and sugar, is related to brioche, baba, and savarin.
- An alcohol-soaked rum cake similar to a baba au rhum that sat on a puree of orange with a whipped coconut cream was a decided runner-up.
Origin Via French from Polish, literally ‘married peasant woman’. nounˈbäˌbäˈbɑˌbɑ Indian 1Father (often as a proper name or as a familiar form of address). Example sentencesExamples - Asked who this man was, the child mumbled proudly ‘Amaar baba (my father).’
- When face-to-face, he would just call him baba (father).
- She answered her father fearlessly: ‘Baba Saheb, you still wish to be revenged’.
- 1.1 A respectful form of address for an older man.
“Sit down, baba, you like tea?” Example sentencesExamples - Sit down, baba, you like tea?
- Note that baba, on its own, can independently refer to an old wise man.
- 1.2 A holy man (often as a proper name or form of address).
Example sentencesExamples - Pray to Sun God and Sri Raghavendra or Shirdi baba on Thursdays.
- Not surprisingly, the one-armed baba and other members of the militant ascetic Juna Akhara sect are big fans of the Ram temple.
- It was a framed picture of Shirdi Sai baba with his hand raised in blessing, lean and austere, with a white cloth tied around his head and a trimmed white beard.
- It is relevant here to mention those three Indian saints in recent history Kabir and Nanak and late Sai baba of Sirdi who did not found any religion based on divine revelation.
- My father later explained that it was about this Baba (holy man) who would supposedly materialize objects from thin air.
- Ghani's life takes a turn when he falls in love with a medico, Indu, living in an ashram there, run by a baba.
- Look at the number of swamis, yogis, babas and even mendicants who have made a fortune in the western world, especially in America.
- I am told he is a mauna baba (a holy man who has taken a vow of silence).
- In due time Baba's holy body was placed and preserved in the central shrine.
2A child, especially a male one (often in names or as an affectionate form of address). Example sentencesExamples - The babas (girls and boys) are barely three or four years old.
- But officially sanctioned ‘dating’ and sexual intimacy - na baba na.
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