What is "babai"

The Babai (Pashto: بابئی or بابئے), also known as Babi (Pashto: بابی ), is a Gharghasti Pashtun tribe. This tribe lives mostly in Quetta, Pakistan and Zabol Province, Afghanistan.< The tribe speaks the most archaic and soft dialect of Pashto language, referred to as Kandahari Pashto dialect or the Southern Dialect.

Babai or Babaeus may refer to:

Babai is a surname. Two of its meanings are father in Persian and grandfather in Russian. People with the name include:

• Babai the Great, 6th century leader of the Assyrian Church of the East
• László Babai (b. 1950), Hungarian mathematician
• Li Babai 李八百, one of Eight Immortals from Sichuan
• Mar Babai I ( fl. 497–503), patriarch of the Church of the East

Babai, also Babaeus, was Patriarch of the Church of the East (the Persian Church), from 497 – 503. Under his leadership, the Persian Church became increasingly aligned with the Nestorian movement, declared heretical in the Roman Empire.

Babai was also known as patriarch of Seleucia-Ctesiphon. When he became patriarch, he was married. With the permission of King Djamasp, Babai was allowed to call a synod (council) in 497/499, at which clerical celibacy was abolished, permitting priests and even bishops to marry. Babai died during the reign of King Kobad, during a time while Kobad was at war with the Byzantine Empire.

Babai is a 2015 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Visar Morina. Morina won the award for Best Director at the 2015 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The film was selected as the Kosovan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. It is the most expensive Kosovan film produced, with a budget of €1.7 million.