Baba
a Turkish word, signifying father, originating, like our word papa, in the first efforts of children to speak.
In Persia and Turkey it is prefixed as a title of honor to the names of ecclesiastics of distinction; it is often affixed in courtesy, also, to the names of other persons, as Ali persons, as Ali-Baba.
BÁBA BÚDAN (bä-bä bö-dan'), a spur of the West Gháts, Mysore, India, which the West Ghats, Mysore, India, which strikes E. for 15 miles, leaving a narrow opening at its W. end for the passage of the Bhadra , then S. in an unbroken line for 20 miles, inclosing between itself and the main chain of the Gháts a rich, but unhealthy valley. To this spur belong three peaks above 6,000 feet high, among these Mulaina-giri, 6,317 feet, the highest in est in the West Gháts. Coffee was first planted in India on another part of this spur toward the close of the 17th century, by a Mohammedan saint named Bába Búdan.