What is the word BABY in your language ?

[koolkat]

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

babychen - north Germany

Bairn - geordie for baby

All excellent stuff !

Leanbh

'thing' in my own personal language. Or 'urgh!'

Bebé in French.

varon - baby boy
hembra (silent h) - baby girl

both are Spanish.

nobody mentioned 'sprog' yet?

"Bebelus" or "bebe" is Romanian for baby.

In Greek it's - Moro
but they tend to call babies beba for ages

Up North yes, we call them Bairns.

funny how "bebe" comes up in lots of different languages !

May be I should do an international dictionary that includes all these baby words...??

Rebyonok in Russian (pronounced; RebYONok)

or (cuter): maliootka, deetya, malish (both mean 'kid, baby'

pronounced maliOOtka, DEEtya, malISH.

What about Yiddish: bubbeleh, bubi

(the 'u' pronounced like in 'book'

BUBBU
in arabic

They are "smallies" in the People's Republic of Cork!

Bairn is baby/child in Swedish too.

Bayi - baby in Malay

my grandma used to call us bairns - she was from yorkshire

In German it's Baby and also Säugling ('suckling')

Pepe is Maori for baby
Tamaiti = child
Tamarike = children
Tama = boy
Hine or kotiro = girl

Sorry typo there
Tamariki is children

my sister calls mine "sprogs" and I LOATH it.
I love Tamariki - it rolls of the tongue nicely :)

in Kikuyu - Mwana

in Kiswahaili - Mtoto