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'''Baba''' ([[Persian language|Persian]]: {{nq|بابا}} "father, grandfather, wise old man, sir";<ref name= Platts>Platts, John T. (John Thompson). A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English. London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1884.</ref>) is an [[honorific]] term, of [[Persian language|Persian]] origin,<ref name = OED/> used in several [[West Asian]] and [[South Asian]] cultures.<br />
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It is used as a mark of respect to refer to [[Hindu]] and [[Sikh]] ascetics ([[sannyasi]]s) and is used as a suffix or prefix to their names, e.g. [[Sai Baba of Shirdi|Sai Baba]], [[Baba Ramdevji]], etc.<ref name = Platts/><ref>{{cite book| last = Hunter | first = William Wilson | author-link = William Wilson Hunter|author2=James Sutherland Cotton |author3=Richard Burn |author4=William Stevenson Meyer |author5=Great Britain India Office |title = Imperial Gazetteer of India| volume = 20| page = 295|publisher = Clarendon Press| year = 1908}}</ref> ''Baba'' is also a title accorded to the head of certain order of [[Sufi]] heads, as in [[Bulleh Shah|Baba Bulleh Shah]] and [[Rehman Baba]].<ref name = Platts/> The term was also adopted in [[Malaysia]] as an honorific of respect to address Chinese people born in [[Straits Settlements|British Straits Settlement]].<ref name = OED>''Baba'' in {{cite book |author1=Weiner, E. S. C. |author2=Simpson, J. R. |title=The Oxford English dictionary |url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordenglishdic12simp |url-access=registration |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford |year=1989 |isbn=0-19-861186-2 }}</ref><ref name = SEA>{{cite book |author=Ooi, Keat Gin |title=Southeast Asia : A Historical Encyclopedia, From Angkor Wat to East Timor |publisher=ABC-CLIO |location=Santa Barbara, Calif |year=2004 |pages=198 |isbn=1-57607-770-5 }}</ref><br />
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''Baba'' is also the familiar word for "father" in many languages (see [[mama and papa]]); in India it has even been adapted to address male children.<ref name = OED/><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Baba (Alevism)]]<br />
* [[Baba (name)]]<br />
* [[Baba Ram Das]]<br />
* [[Bapak]]<br />
* [[Indian honorifics]]<br />
* [[Mama and papa]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* {{EI3|last=Heß|first=Michael R.|title=Baba|year=2014|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3/baba-COM_25077?s.num=17&s.f.s2_parent=s.f.book.encyclopaedia-of-islam-3&s.q=azerbaijani}}<br />
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