# Bab

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**Bab or BAB** can refer to:

- [Bab (toponymy)](/source/Bab_(toponymy)), a component of Arabic toponyms literally meaning "gate"
- [Bab (Shia Islam)](/source/Bab_(Shia_Islam)), a term designating deputies of the Imams in Shia Islam
- [Báb](/source/B%C3%A1b) (Sayyid `Alí Muḥammad Shírází, 1819–1850), founder of Bábism and a central figure in the Bahá'í Faith
- [Bab Ballads](/source/Bab_Ballads), cartoons published by W. S. Gilbert under the childhood nickname, *Bab*
- *[Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry](/source/Biotechnology_and_Applied_Biochemistry)*, an academic journal
- [Boris Berezovsky (businessman)](/source/Boris_Berezovsky_(businessman)) (1946–2013), Boris Abramovich Berezovsky, a powerful Russian oligarch in self-imposed exile in London from 2001
- [Build America Bonds](/source/Build_America_Bonds), a type of municipal bond created by the *American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009*
- [B. A. Baracus](/source/B._A._Baracus), character on 1980s action series *The A-Team*
- The [British Aikido Board](/source/British_Aikido_Board), a federation of independent [Aikido](/source/Aikido) associations within the United Kingdom
- [British Agriculture Bureau](/source/British_Agriculture_Bureau), the Brussels office of the [National Farmers' Union of England and Wales](/source/National_Farmers'_Union_of_England_and_Wales), [National Farmers' Union of Scotland](/source/National_Farmers'_Union_of_Scotland), and [Ulster Farmers' Union](/source/Ulster_Farmers'_Union)
- [Babcock International](/source/Babcock_International) (stock symbol BAB)

## Places

- [Bab-ı Âli](/source/Bab-%C4%B1_%C3%82li), the gate to the palace of the Grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- [Báb, Nitra District](/source/B%C3%A1b,_Nitra_District), a village and municipality in the Nitra District in western central Slovakia
- [Back-arc basin](/source/Back-arc_basin), a geologic feature: a submarine basin associated with island arcs and subduction zones

## Transport

- [Beale Air Force Base](/source/Beale_Air_Force_Base) (IATA airport code: BAB), in California
- [Bundesautobahn](/source/Bundesautobahn) (BAB), federal motorways in Germany
- [Balcombe railway station](/source/Balcombe_railway_station), a railway station in Sussex, England

## Entertainment

- "Base Attack Bonus", a term used in [d20 System](/source/D20_System) RPG games
- *[Bunty Aur Babli](/source/Bunty_Aur_Babli)*, a 2005 Indian film
- [*Bab* (play)](/source/Bab_(play)), a 1920 Broadway play by [Edward Childs Carpenter](/source/Edward_Childs_Carpenter)

## See also

- [Babs (disambiguation)](/source/Babs_(disambiguation)) (includes BABS)
- [Babb](/source/Babb)
- [Babs (disambiguation)](/source/Babs_(disambiguation))
- [Babe (disambiguation)](/source/Babe_(disambiguation))
- [Baby (disambiguation)](/source/Baby_(disambiguation))
- [Babel (disambiguation)](/source/Babel_(disambiguation))
- [Bab. (disambiguation)](/source/Bab._(disambiguation))

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