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Baba

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Baba and similar words may refer to:

Places

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Poland

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Romania

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Other countries

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  • 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

People and characters

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  • Ali Baba, a character in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Titles and words for people

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Persons

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  • 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 Raila Odinga, an honarary informal title to former Prime Minister of Kenya (1945-2025)

Folklore

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  • 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 ((あま)(ざけ)(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

Fictional characters

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Arts and entertainment

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Films

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Music

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Food

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Other uses

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See also

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