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# baa

«baa» in Mova's school dictionary: **The sound a sheep or lamb makes** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a baa, baas); verb (baa, baas, baaed, baaing); interjection

### meaning for a pupil

1) The sound a sheep or lamb makes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baa/#m1)

2) (verb) To make this sound; to bleat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baa/#m2)

3) Baa San is a Japanese term of address meaning "old woman" or "grandmother". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baa/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Early reading, nursery rhymes («Baa, Baa, Black Sheep») and farm visits. Science: animal sounds. In Alice's world, the sound of sheep-bells and bleating sheep belongs to the countryside she wakes up to.

### examples

- «Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baa/#x1)
- The lambs baaed for their mothers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baa/#x2)
- We heard a loud «baa» from the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baa/#x3)
- The sheep went «baa» when the dog barked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baa/#x4)
- Little Tom can say «baa» like a sheep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baa/#x5)
- The baaing of sheep woke us early. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baa/#x6)

### note

Onomatopoeia. Past: baaed. Not «bah» (which is a cross sound people make: «Bah! Humbug!»).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «baa» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baa/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.