Babo (youth language)

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The term Babo (pronunciation: [baːbo]) means something like boss, leader or boss in German youth language and became known in German-speaking countries from 2012 through the song Chabos know who the Babo is (meaning: “The boys know who's boss here is known ”) of the rapper's arrest warrant .

etymology

The word originally comes from the Balkan Romani and means father . The word is also used in Bosnian and Zaza with the same sound , but the socio-cultural origin from the Roma and Yenish environment is more likely, since their terms often migrate into the language of the street scene via the so-called crooks language and there is a parallel to the word Chabo in the same milieu context, this naturally suggests.

There is also a similar word in Turkish , Kurdish , Persian and Aramaic , but in the form baba .

Distribution and use in German

The diaspora of Turkish origin took up the term and spread it in Germany, especially in the gang scene. It is used there for influential persons of respect.

In November 2013, a jury around the Langenscheidt publishing house voted “Babo” as the 2013 word for young people . It was assigned to the Turkish language, which is not true.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Babo" is the word for young people in 2013, accessed on www.haz.de, December 20, 2013.
  2. ↑ This word is found primarily in the Balkan Romani instead of the bato usual elsewhere , cf. on this the detailed comparative etymological discussion in Bernhard Helzle-Drehwald, Der Gitanismo in the Spanish Argot , 2004, p. 101f.
  3. ↑ see also the text of the song Ederlezi and the origin of the word Chabo from the same context.
  4. ↑ dict.cc: Babo is Bosnian. December 3, 2013, accessed December 3, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Matthias Heine: Babo is Zazaic. November 26, 2013. Retrieved November 29, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Do Chabos know what a Babo is? , accessed April 1, 2018. Shows a transition of the word from Romani to a variety of Yenish.
  7. ↑ Clixoom: Arrest warrant for Rapa analysis: Chabos know who the Babo is , minute 1: 15–1: 25, January 17, 2013, accessed on September 15, 2013.
  8. ↑ www.jugendwort.de
  9. ^ Anatol Stefanowitsch : Reflections on the youth word 2014 . On: Sprachlog, November 26, 2013