- baobh
- a wicked woman, witch, Irish badhbh, hoodie crow, a fairy, a scold, Early Irish badb, crow, demon, Badba, the Irish war-goddess, Welsh bod, kite, Gaulish Bodv-, Bodvo-gnatus, Welsh Bodnod; Norse böð, g. boðvar, war, Anglo-Saxon beadu, g. beadwe, *badwa- (Rhys.). In Stokes' Dict. the Sanskrit bádhate, oppress, Lithuanian bádas, famine, are alone given. Also baogh.
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.