ba

Meaning

Noun

• A being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food.
• Father, baba.
• A medieval football game played in parts of Scotland around Christmas and New Year.

Origin

• Borrowed from Egyptian bꜣ, G53-Z1
• The sound is very commonly made by infants, and is interpreted by parents as a reference to themselves.