{UAH} Why Ganda call a husband.. Ba ....- Food for thought from Mugerwa's post

The Zulus and Swazis also use Ba-be to mean Husband  or Father

(Hebrew Bá'ál; plural, Be'alîm.)

A word which belongs to the oldest stock of the Semite vocabulary and primarily means "lord", "owner". So in Hebrew, a man is styled baal of a house (Exodus 22:7; Judges 19:22), of a field (Job 21:39), of cattle (Exodus 21:28; Isaiah 1:3) ofwealth (Eccles, v, 12), even of a wife (Exodus 21:3; cf. Genesis 3:16). The women's position in the Oriental home explains why she is never called Bá'alah of her husband)

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