baba
Portuguese, noun
baba is spelled B-A-B-A (4 letters) and appears 4.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 13,900th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Baba is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “drool, dribble, slobber” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of babar. With an accent, babá is a different word: “nanny; babysitter (child’s nurse)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “saliva ou mucosidade que escorre da boca”.
What does baba mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedrool, dribble, slobber
- 2
BrazilfemininevulgarCowper's fluid; pre-ejaculate
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
noun
- 1
Brazilfemininenanny; babysitter (child’s nurse)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. saliva ou mucosidade que escorre da boca 2. a cachaça que resta no copo
noun: 1. designação carinhosa para jovens
noun: 1. empregada doméstica especializada em cuidar de crianças
noun: 1. tipo de bolo, que pode ou não levar passas e embebido numa calda de rum, licor ou outra bebida 2. forma reduzida de babalaô 3. arbusto rasteiro, da família das solanáceas (Solanum agrarium), de folhas aculeadas e bagas comestíveis 4. arrebenta-cavalo
noun: 1. designação de pai ou ancestral (nos cultos iorubas e em seus derivados) e também, do chefe do terreiro candomblé 2. em alguns candomblés, título de reverência de Oxalá
noun: 1. dirigente do terreiro, em alguns candomblés traçados
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of baba
- babas plural
- babás plural
- bá alternative regional
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to baba
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is baba in Portuguese?
baba appears 4.2 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).