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[ bahb ]

noun

  1. abbreviated form of Bab ed-Din.


Bab.

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abbreviation for

  1. Babylon; Babylonia.

Bab

/ ɑː /

noun

  1. Bab, the18191850MPersianRELIGION: religious leader the . title of Mirza Ali Mohammed 1819–50, Persian religious leader: founded Babism; executed as a heretic of Islam
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Word History and Origins

Origin of 1

from Persian gate, from Arabic
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Babe, , Baby, bā′bi, n. an infant or child: a doll, puppet: the reflection of one's self in miniature seen in the pupil of another's eye.—ns.

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At the mosque called the Ashrafia they separated, one party proceeding to the Azhar and the houses of certain sheiks, and the other continuing along the main street, and through the gate called Zuwēla, where they turned up towards the citadel.

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Two Mamelukes had in the meantime succeeded, by great exertions, in giving the alarm to their comrades in the quarter of the Azhar, who escaped by the eastern gate called al-Ghoraib.

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On the following morning, these beys, with their Mamelukes, a very numerous body, broke open the gate of the suburb al-Husainia, and gained admittance into the city from the north, through the gate called el-Futūḥ.

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