Bab or BAB can refer to: * Bab (toponymy), a component of Arabic toponyms literally meaning "gate" *

Set (mythology) Set (; Egyptological: ''Sutekh - swtẖ ~ stẖ'' or Greek: Seth ) is a god of deserts, storms, disorder, violence, and foreigners in ancient Egyptian religion. In Ancient Greek, the god's name is given as ''Sēth'' (Σήθ). Set had a positive ...

(also known as Bab, Baba, or Seth) ancient Egyptian God * Bab (Shia Islam), a term designating deputies of the Imams in Shia Islam * Báb (Sayyid `Alí Muḥammad Shírází, 1819–1850), founder of Bábism and a central figure in the Bahá'í Faith *

Bab-ı Âli The Sublime Porte, also known as the Ottoman Porte or High Porte ( ota, باب عالی, Bāb-ı Ālī or ''Babıali'', from ar, باب, bāb, gate and , , ), was a synecdoche for the central government of the Ottoman Empire. History The name ...

, the gate to the palace of the Grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire *

Báb, Nitra District Báb is a village and municipality in the Nitra District in western central Slovakia, in the Nitra Region. History The village was created in 1955 from the merger of two formerly independent villages, ''Malý Báb'' and ''Velký Báb''. Veľký B� ...

, a village and municipality in the Nitra District in western central Slovakia * Bab Ballads, cartoons published by W. S. Gilbert under the childhood nickname, ''Bab'' *

Back-arc basin A back-arc basin is a type of geologic basin, found at some convergent plate boundaries. Presently all back-arc basins are submarine features associated with island arcs and subduction zones, with many found in the western Pacific Ocean. Most of ...

, a geologic feature: a submarine basin associated with island arcs and subduction zones * "Base Attack Bonus", a term used in d20 System RPG games * Beale Air Force Base (IATA airport code: BAB), in California * '' Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry'', an academic journal * Boris Berezovsky (businessman) (1946–2013), Boris Abramovich Berezovsky, a powerful Russian oligarch in self-imposed exile in London from 2001 * Build America Bonds, a type of municipal bond created by the ''American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009'' * '' Bunty Aur Babli'', a 2005 Indian film * German autobahns or Bundesautobahn, federal motorways in Germany * B. A. Baracus, character on 1980s action series ''The A-Team'' * The British Aikido Board, a federation of independent Aikido associations within the United Kingdom * Babcock International (stock symbol BAB) * Balcombe railway station, a railway station in Sussex, England

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