babachai

== Macanese == === Etymology === From babá +‎ Cantonese 仔 (zai2). === Noun === babachai small child Coordinate term: quiança baby ==== Related terms ==== === References === https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#b Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988), “babachai”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page n63