Baba

1. a small, rich sponge cake, typically soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.

   the cooked babas are hollowed out and filled with confectioners' custard

via French from Polish, literally ‘married peasant woman’.

1. father (often as a proper name or as a familiar form of address).

   ‘Baba and I have squabbled.’

2. a child, especially a male one (often in names or as an affectionate form of address).

   ‘Remove the paper whenever you are ready, baba.’

from Urdu bābā .