• Ba

    Origin 1

    Compare Old French baer ("to open the mouth"); French bayer

    Full definition of ba

    Verb

    1. (intransitive, obsolete) To kiss.

    Origin 2

    From Egyptian 𓅽𓏤.

    Noun

    ba

    (plural bas)
    1. In ancient Egyptian mythology, a being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food.
      • 1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings:But the Ba, I remembered, could be seen as the mistress of your heart and might or might not decide to speak to you, just as the heart cannot always forgive.

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