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What is the word BABY in your language ?

38 replies

koolkat · 20/03/2006 16:52

Hello everyone

I am setting up a website and need an original and funky name !

What is the word "BABY" in your language ?

Please give me both the proper word and any slang words you have in your language.

Hopefully your input will give me some bright ideas Smile

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fastasleep · 20/03/2006 16:53

Bairn! Scottish like Grin lol

moondog · 20/03/2006 16:53

baban
crwt
bychan

Welsh

hth

hunkermunker · 20/03/2006 16:54

aka-chan (I think) is Japanese. Literal translation is "red thing" - which is most apt for newborns!

koolkat · 20/03/2006 16:55

moondog - is the first pronounced as it's written BA BAN ??

Being Welsh, you never know how it's pronounced GrinGrin

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moondog · 20/03/2006 17:00

Yes kk

koolkat · 20/03/2006 17:04

hk - DS was very purple - probably beacuse he was freezing cold !

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girlchick · 20/03/2006 22:07

In Bengali, baby is "baicha"

Cristina7 · 20/03/2006 22:21

Bebelus (pr. bebeloosh)
Bebita (pr. bebitza)
Prunc (pr. proonc)

Cristina7 · 20/03/2006 22:21

Forgot to say that's in Romanian.

likklemum · 21/03/2006 00:24

Pickney is West-Indian - means child.

m4ya · 21/03/2006 00:52

chokru = in gujrati means child

ghosty · 21/03/2006 01:07

Tamariki ('child' in Maori)
kuds (kids in an NZ accent WinkGrin)

CoteDAzur · 20/03/2007 17:54

"Bebek" in Turkish.

kama · 20/03/2007 17:57

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Tanee58 · 22/03/2007 14:21

In Sri Lanka, Sinhalese is Baba

chipmonkey · 22/03/2007 15:32

"Leanbh" in Irish, pronounced "lyaniv"

Califrau · 22/03/2007 16:10

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frenchleave · 22/03/2007 16:29

The most common cutesy term for baby in French is bout de chou, meaning piece of cabbage

AuldAlliance · 22/03/2007 16:34

There's pitchoune or pitchounet(te) in French, too.
Or marmaille in Fr créole.

frenchleave · 23/03/2007 09:37

Oh yes, forgot about that one AA. Prefer it to bout de chou

geekgrrl · 23/03/2007 09:38

it's Baby in German, but sounds more like 'Bebee'

Stelle · 26/03/2007 17:23

In Italian yes, is BAMBINO/A, but generally little children say BIMBO/A
(so I have to stop my child to say that in England, because they told me here is a bad word?) and also
NEONATO (just born)
LATTANTE (from latte=milk)
PARGOLO (Italian old style)
MARMOCCHIO (colloquial old style)
PUTEO (slang from Venezia)
CRIATURA (slang from Napoli and South Italy)
PISCHELLETTO (slang from ROMA)

MissM · 28/03/2007 19:05

In Hebrew: tinook, although the 'oo' is more like the 'oo' in 'look'. Or yeladim means children (yeled for a boy, yelda for a girl).

PrincessPeaHead · 28/03/2007 19:13

moro in greek

with the accent on the last o. and the r very slightly rolled!

burek · 28/03/2007 19:20

bosnian: beba (baby), mali (little one), draga (dear one - female)

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