baba
1. father. 2. title applied to a holy man or to a respected elderly man: İsmet baba, Hakkı baba, Telli baba. 3. the leader of a group of dervishes; the head of a tekke (among the Bektashi dervishes). 4. bollard; bitt. 5. newel-post, newel (large post at the foot or landing of a stairway). 6. king post; crown post; queen post (in the truss of a roof). 7. head (of a walking stick). 8. colloq. mafia chief, mafia boss. 9. slang penis, *dick, *cock, *pecker. --m colloq. 1. a vocative expression used after an imperative when addressing an intimate friend: Anlat babam, ne oldu? Now tell me what happened man! 2. used before and after an imperative to emphasize that an action was prolonged: Oku babam oku! Read, read, read! -- adam elderly man who is wise and kind. -- bucağı family home, homeplace. --sının/--larının çiftliği a place which one can exploit at will, one´s private preserve: Orası babasının çiftliği mi? Is that a place which he can just exploit at will? -- değil, tırabzan babası man who is a poor excuse for a father. -- dostu an old friend of one´s father. -- evi 1. home, the place on which one´s familial affections are centered. 2. family home, homeplace. --sının hayrına for the sheer love of it, without thinking of getting something out of it: Demirhan, o heyette babasının hayrına mı çalışıyor sanki? Mutlaka bir menfaat peşindedir! Do you think Demirhan´s serving on that committee for the sheer love of it? He´s most certainly hoping to reap some benefit for himself! Ona babasının hayrına iş vermezler elbet. You can be sure they aren´t going to give him a job just to show they´re nice guys. -- hindi turkey-cock, gobbler. -- hindi gibi kabarmak to become swelled up with self-importance, swell up with pride and arrogance, puff oneself up. --dan kalma inherited from one´s father: Babadan kalma bir evi var. He has a house which he inherited from his father. -- ocağı see -- evi. --dan oğula from father to son. --sının oğlu. colloq. Like father, like son. --na rahmet! colloq. You are very kind indeed! --sına rahmet okumak /ın/ (for someone) to be so wonderful he/she makes you want to bless the father that begot him/her. --sına rahmet okutmak /ın/ 1. (for someone, something) to be so bad that he/she/it makes one yearn for (someone or something else who/which is in himself/herself/itself undesirable): Fecri bir felaketti, fakat Feyman, Fecri´nin babasına rahmet okutuyor. Fecri was a disaster, but Feyman is so awful he makes us yearn to have Fecri back again. 2. (for someone) to be so wonderful he/she makes you want to bless the father that begot him/her. -- tarafından paternally. -- torik 1. bonito which has reached a large size. 2. slang penis, *dick, *cock, *pecker. --ları/--sı tutmak 1. to become enraged, have a conniption, have a conniption fit. 2. to shake or move about convulsively (as if one is having a fit). --ları üstünde olmak to be ready to explode (with rage). -- yurdu see -- evi.