Baba "father, grandfather, wise old man, sir";) is an honorific term, of Persian origin, used in several West Asian and South Asian cultures.
“Parents” is usually translated simply as “father and mother,” پِدَر وَ مادَر (pidar va mādar).
Joon is often used after saying someone's name as a form of respect or affection- baba joon, for example, means father dear, or Sarah joon, is simply Sarah dear.
very lovely, very sweet, beloved, a piece of heart.
عزیز • (aziz) (plural عزیزان (azizân)) dear one, darling. friend.
Baba "father, grandfather, wise old man, sir";) is an honorific term, of Persian origin, used in several West Asian and South Asian cultures.
Borrowed from Persian جان (jân, “soul, vital spirit, life”).
Khuda or Khoda (Persian: خدا) is the Persian word for "Lord" or "God". Originally, it was used in reference to Ahura Mazda (the name of the God in Zoroastrianism). Iranian languages, Turkic languages, and many Indo-Aryan languages employ the word.
The Middle Eastern word baba (as in Ali Baba) is rather a term of endearment, and is ultimately derived from Persian بابا (bābā, “father”) (from Old Persian pāpa; as opposed to the Arabic words أَبُو (ʾabū) and أَب (ʾab); see also Papak), and is linguistically related to the common European word papa and the word ...
Turkish, Swahili, Nepali, Mandarin Chinese, Zulu, Malay, Italian, Indonesian, and Arabic all have a version of the word baba.
/ˈbæb.ə/ father: used by some South Asians to show respect to an older man. used by some South Asians when talking to a friend or a child, especially a man or boy.
بابا [bābā] {m} dad (also: pope, pa, daddy, papa)
علف • ('alaf) (plural علفها ('alaf-hâ)) fodder, provender, grass, hay synonyms ▲ Synonyms: اسپست (aspast), واش (vâš)
not a Britishism but an Irish diminutive for “father.” I first became aware of it when reading about and then seeing Hugh Leonard's excellent play of that name, in a 1978 Broadway production starring Barnard Hughes.
Azizam. Azizam literally means “my dear” and is a general term of endearment that you can use with anyone- friend, family, lover, old, young. You'll even hear women who are total strangers call each other azizam .
Joon (or jân, as it's often pronounced), means “soul/spirit/life”, but it's essentially a Persian word of endearment used after a person's first name to mean “dear”. It's a little nicer than just calling someone by their name alone.
Other common terms of endearment include: azizam (عزیزم, my dear), asalam (عسلم, my honey), khoshgelam (خوشگلم, my beautiful), nafasam (نفسم, my breath), jigaram (جیگرم, my liver).
Baba is used as a term of endearment for father figures all over the world, but in the Ukraine it usually refers to grandmas! If you're into the two-syllable thing, there's also Dada. Grand-pére is French for grandfather (and what I called my own paternal grandpa).
pedar-e pedar bozorg. پدر پدربزرگ (n) great-grandfather. maadar bozorg.
Baba is a word found in several Middle Eastern and Asian languages, including Sanskrit and Hindi, that means “father,” “grandfather” and “wise old man.” It is used as a form of address to show respect for an older man.
Farsi is the Persians' endonym, or internal name, for the language. Specifically, it refers to the dialect spoken in Iran, which is slightly different from that spoken in Tajikistan and Afghanistan.
In Persian (Persian: امير) the name means 'immortal'. In Pashto (Pashto: امير) the name comes to mean 'leader' or 'boss'. In Hebrew, when spelt אמיר the name means crown (treetop).