ba
noun. (chiefly Southern Vietnam) father
In Vietnamese, father is ba, bọ, bố.
1. (noun) a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) 2. (noun) ‘Father’ is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); ‘Padre’ is frequently used in the military 3. (noun) God when considered as the first person in the Trinity 4. (noun) the founder of a family 5. (noun) (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom 6. (noun) a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization 7. (noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution 8. (noun) the head of an organized crime family 9. (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction
noun. (chiefly Southern Vietnam) father
noun. (North Central Vietnam) father; dad
noun. (chiefly Northern Vietnam) father
noun. (archaic) father
noun. (literary, dated, otherwise Catholicism) father
noun. (Southern Vietnam) father; dad
noun. (archaic) father
noun. (Northern Vietnam, somewhat dated) father
noun. (formal) father
noun. (archaic, formal) father
noun. (dated, formal) father
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