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What is the word BABY in your language ?

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koolkat · 20/03/2006 16:53

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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expatinscotland · 20/03/2006 16:54

My husband calls them 'bairns'.

fastasleep · 20/03/2006 16:55

lol expat i posted the same on the other one!!

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koolkat · 20/03/2006 16:58

expat - how is that pronounced ?

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collision · 20/03/2006 17:03

bimbo (male baby)
bimba (female baby)
bimbi (many babies)

fredly · 20/03/2006 17:03

bébé, gosse, gamin, mouflet... that's French.
My Irish ILs call them something like "weene", for wee+one.

collision · 20/03/2006 17:04

bairns is pronunced as bayrns (silent ai and harder on the 'r') IYSWIM

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koolkat · 20/03/2006 17:06

bimbo ? I thought they were generally females ?? Grin

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Ellbell · 21/03/2006 01:27

Or, when asking whether someone has had a girl or a boy...

una femminuccia (girl)
un maschietto (boy)

threebob · 21/03/2006 01:36

Tamariki is child in Maori.

skerriesmum · 21/03/2006 01:41

aka-chan is Japanese for baby (little red one!)

lucy5 · 21/03/2006 08:03

Bebe in Spanish too or Nino, Nina {sorry dont have a Spanish keyboard for the accents} for boy and girl.

Bimbo is a make of bread in Spain.

Cutsie1 · 21/03/2006 14:14

Kleintje - Little One in Dutch
Frechdachs - Cheeky Chops in German
Bambino - Baby/child in Italian

Pruni · 21/03/2006 14:21

dziecko (Polish) pron. sthg like jets-koh

anka7 · 21/03/2006 14:21

Beebi - baby in Estonian

welshmum · 21/03/2006 14:23

babi - in Welsh (bah-bee)

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koolkat · 21/03/2006 14:25

wow - lots of ideas here - thanks !

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Nbg · 21/03/2006 14:26

There was an actor called Berwick Kaler who was always in our local panto (he'd done some tv bits in the past)

His little catchphrase was always

"me babbies me bairns"

Normally I shudder when I hear people call children bairns but I really liked his little catch phrase.

fimbo · 21/03/2006 14:27

Another Scottish term is WEANS
Wee uns

notasheep · 21/03/2006 14:35

didums

MrsWood · 21/03/2006 14:49

Beba - croatian for a baby.
Dijete - Croatian for a child.

Tanzie · 21/03/2006 22:26

Copil - Romanian for child
Fetita - little girl (pronounced "feteetsa")

Have forgotten the word for little boy, but have unhelpfully remembered it in Polish - it's Chlopiec if you're interested (pronounced Hwopiets, so not the most musical sounding of names).

Have just remembered Romanian for boy - it's Baiat (pronounced Buy-at).

And the Polish for girl is Dzewczyna (not sure on spelling, but pronounced Jevchinna - diminutive would be Dzewczynka).

Is that helpful, or not at all?

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koolkat · 22/03/2006 14:22

Tanzie - thanks so much - I need something simple, short and easy to remember !

The ones you have listed are all lovely, just not easy to remember or spell Smile

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sunandmoon · 22/03/2006 15:01

I call DD Mon Petit Coeur (My little heart in French) - Not easy really to remember.
BEBE is easier...
BABA: DH is from SA

halima · 22/03/2006 20:19

Baichan - Bengali

hugeheadofhair · 22/03/2006 20:26

ukkie (slang for little one in Dutch) Perhaps not such a good suggestion for an english site, i'm thinking yukkie now.
I really like the Maorie word, if I may give an opinion

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