Definition of "baba"

My baba, Ksenia Dubinsky, tells me that my education makes her proud.

1993, Karen Dubinsky, Improper Advances: Rape and Heterosexual Conflict in Ontario, 1880-1929, University of Chicago Press

I walked first for my grandmother, and my mother was sorry she had missed my first steps. My Baba was so proud, my mother later told me.

2001, Brattleboro Remembers, edited by the Brattleboro [Vermont] Historical Society, Arcadia Publishing

As we made eye contact, I slowly began to wonder if she was Baba. I did not know my grandmother though I'd spoken with her several times on the telephone;

2004, MaryBeth Bond, editor, A Woman's Europe: True Stories

Only two women, typical "babas" (peasant women) in the house from which I got my quilt and bedcloth, could be coaxed to pose;

1914, Russell Sage Foundation, Wage-earning Pittsburgh

Laura hadn't known that anyone's mother could look like that, like the babas you sometimes saw downtown, bandaged in kerchiefs and aprons, sitting toothless in stockinged feet on small verandahs, peeling potatoes or beets or just shaking their heads and grimacing.

1986, Janice Kulyk Keefer, The Paris-Napoli Express

According to some, new volunteers are becoming more difficult to recruit and there are dark suggestions that 'money is being made on the backs of the babas', the dedicated, but ageing ladies who still spend countless hours of their time preparing foodstuffs for the occasion.

2003, Colin Michael Hall, Liz Sharples, editors, Food Tourism Around The World: Development, Management and Markets

The first time I signed my exercise I wrote "Pisistratus Caxton" in my best round-hand. "And dey call your baba a scholar!" said the Doctor, contemptuously.

1849, Edward Bulwer Lytton, The Caxtons

"The greatest gift and honor is having you for a daughter. I've missed you so." "I've missed you too, baba."

1998, Mulan (movie)

Okay. Okay. Fine, baba. Let's just do it before something else goes wrong.

2002, Bend It Like Beckham (movie)

"Do not be disrespectful, son. Look at me." "Baba, were you a Savaki?"

2003, House of Sand and Fog (movie)

While I was in Port Alberni, three babas came to Canada to raise money ...

1995, Hugh J.M. Johnston, Tara Singh Bains, The Four Quarters of the Night: The Life-Journey of an Emigrant Sikh

But according to Ray, 'all the babas my uncle knew were genuine. None of them was exposed. They were fairly humble people, not show-offs like the Maharishi ...

2004, Andrew Robinson, Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker

Most babas had little contact with written culture and are not therefore named in books and treatises.

2006, Suraiya Faroqhi, Subjects Of The Sultan: Culture And Daily Life In The Ottoman Empire

That is to say, if I do not take care, I shall go on calling my darling 'Baba' till she is as old as her mamma, and has a dozen Babas of her own.

1876, Sir George Otto Trevelyan, The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

For my child is dead—my baba is dead!

1904, Rudyard Kipling, Traffics and Discoveries

Oh, it's storytime! Let me get my baba.

2004, House (TV, episode 1.14)