Baba

Places

Achi Baba (Turkish: Alçıtepe), a height dominating the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey, located in Çanakkale Province
Zeze Station, formerly named Baba Station, a railway station in Baba, Otsu City, Japan
Baba Amr, a city district in southwestern Homs in central Syria
Baba mountain range, also known as Koh-i-Baba, in the Hindu Kush of Afghanistan
Baba Bakala, a historical town and tehsil in the Amritsar district in Punjab, India
Baba Canton, a canton in Los Ríos Province, Ecuador
Baba Ramazan (Persian: بابارمضان, also Romanized as Bābā Ramaẕān), a village in Hezarmasjed Rural District, in the Central District of Kalat County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
Baba Gurgur (Arabic: بابا كركر, Kurdish: بابە گوڕگوڕ ,Babagurgur), an oil field and gas flame near the city of Kirkuk, which was the first to be discovered in Northern Iraq
Baba, Iran, a village in Kurdistan Province
Baba, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, a village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran
Cape Baba, a cape in Turkey
Imbaba, a working-class neighbourhood in Egypt

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People and characters

baba, a familiar term for 'father' in many languages; see Mama and papa
Baba (honorific), an honorific used in several South Asian and Middle Eastern cultures
Baba (Alevism), an Alevi religious leader

Baba (name), people with the name
Babá (disambiguation), people with the name
Gül Baba (disambiguation), people with the name
Yutaka Baba (disambiguation), Japanese people with the name
Baba Yaga (disambiguation), people with the name
Baba clan, a Japanese samurai family that was associated with Kai Province
Sarı Saltık alternatively spelled as Sarı Saltuk and also referred as Sarı Saltuk Baba or Dede, was a 13th-century Alevi Turkish dervish, venerated as a saint by the Bektashi Sufi Muslims in the Balkans
Shaykh Hamid-i Vali (Turkish: Şeyh Hamid-i Veli) (1331–1412), better known by his sobriquet Somunju Baba (Turkish: Somuncu Baba), was an ascetic teacher of Islam in Bursa, Turkey
Baba Ramdev, Indian Yog Guru (born 1965)
Telli Baba, a Muslim saint and Shaykh of the Qadiri Sufi order buried on the Bosphorus coast in the Sarıyer district of Istanbul
Koyunbaba (or Seyit Ali) was a saint who lived in the city of Osmancık in Çorum Province, Turkey
Sayaka Baba, a Japanese singer and actress, former member of HKT48
Sai Baba, Indian mystic (1838–1918)
Baba Farid, Punjabi Muslim preacher and mystic (1188 – 1266)
Baba Hari Dass, Indian yogi and writer (1923–2018)
Baba Haruna (born 2002), Ghanaian footballer
Baba Sehgal, Indian rapper (born 1965)

Baba (goddess) or Bau, a Sumerian goddess from Lagash
Baba (Egyptian god) or Babi, an Egyptian god in the shape of a baboon
Baba Yaga, a mythical older female in Slavic folklore
Baba Tomor or Baba Tomorr ('Father Tomorr'), a name of the father god, used in central Albanian mythology and folklore to refer to the father of gods and humans
Baba Marta (Bulgarian: Баба Марта, "Granny March"), a name of the Bulgarian mythical figure who brings with her the end of the cold winter and the beginning of the spring
Arikura-no-baba (蟻鞍の婆, ant-saddle hag), a Japanese character from the folklore of Gifu Prefecture
Oshiroibabā (Japanese: 白粉ばばあ; lit. "oshiroi (white facial powder) old woman") or Oshiroibabā-san (白粉ばあさん), a Japanese yōkai old woman from the Totsukawa river in Yoshino District, Nara Prefecture
Amazake-babaa (甘(あま)酒(ざけ)婆(ばばあ), amazake hag) or amazake banbā, a Japanese old woman yōkai from the folklore of Miyagi Prefecture and Aomori Prefecture
Mikaribaba (箕借り婆), a Japanese yōkai of a one-eyed old woman in stories and customs of the Kantō region
Noel Baba (Father Noel), a Turkish and Arabic version of Père Noël, which is a widely celebrated figure for New Year celebrations, substituting Christmas Holiday in predominantly Christian countries

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Other uses

Sozenji Baba, a 1928 Japanese film
Adauchi sōzenji baba, a 1957 Japanese film
Paopi or Baba, the second month of the Coptic calendar
Kurgan stelae, anthropomorphic stone stella commonly known as baba in the East Ukraine
Onibaba, a 1964 Japanese horror film
Baba (yacht), a line of yachts built in Taiwan
Baba (Pillow Pal), a Pillow Pal lamb made by Ty, Inc.
beta-Aminobutyric acid (BABA), an isomer of Aminobutyric acid
Alibaba Group Holding Limited (New York Stock Exchange stock symbol BABA)
Takadanobaba, a neighborhood in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

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