Used as a Hindi courtesy title; equivalent to English `Mr'.

synoniem: baboo.

Roget 553: recorder, notary, clerk; registrar, registrary^†, register; prothonotary [Law]; amanuensis, secretary, scribe, babu^†, remembrancer^†, bookkeeper, custos rotulorum [Lat.], Master of the Rolls.    annalist; historian, historiographer; chronicler, journalist; biographer etc. (narrator) 594; antiquary etc. (antiquity) 122; memorialist^†; interviewer.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: baboe