老爸

lǎobà
father; dad

CEDICT

  1. (Hainanese) old man; elderly man
  2. (informal and endearing in Mandarin, non-face-to-face in Hokkien) dad; father
  3. dad; father
  4. old man; elderly man

Wiktionary

对父亲的暱称。

重編國語辭典

Examples

她老爸是日本人。

Her father is Japanese.

Source: Tatoeba

汤姆会被他老爸教训的。

Tom will be scolded by his father.

Source: Tatoeba

我给我的老爸送了一个铃鼓。

I gave my dad a tambourine as a gift.

Source: Tatoeba

Entry Composition

1 老 lǎo
  1. prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity
  2. old (of people)
  3. venerable (person)
  4. experienced
  5. of long standing
  6. always
  7. all the time
  8. of the past
  9. very
  10. outdated
  11. (of meat etc) tough
2 爸 bà
  1. father
  2. dad
  3. pa
  4. papa

Containing this entry

老爸茶 lǎobàchá

Related entries

父上 fùshàng (slang) father; dad (playful honorific, orthographic borrowing from Japanese "chichi-ue")
爸爸 bàba (coll.) father; dad

classifiers: 個, 位

爸爸在哪？

Where's Daddy?

Source: Tatoeba