баба

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Contents 1 Bulgarian 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Inflection 2 Macedonian 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Noun 2.2.1 Inflection 3 Old Church Slavonic 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Noun 3.2.1 Descendants 4 Russian 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Noun 4.2.1 Declension 4.2.2 Related terms 5 Serbian 5.1 Noun 5.1.1 Declension 6 Ukrainian 6.1 Pronunciation 6.2 Noun

[edit] Bulgarian

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• IPA: /'babə/

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баба (bába) f.

1. grandmother, grandma, granny, gran
2. old woman, goody, granny
3. mother-in-law (one’s wife’s mother)
4. midwife, wise woman
5. wise woman, sorceress, witch
6. woman, weakling, milksop, mollycoddle, molly, old maid
7. monkey

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[edit] Macedonian

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• IPA: /'baba/

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баба (bába) f.

1. grandmother, grandma, granny, gran
2. old woman, goody, granny
3. mother-in-law (one’s wife’s mother)
4. midwife

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From Proto-Slavic *baba.

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баба (baba) f.

1. wet nurse

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баба (bába) f.

1. (disdainful) woman, countrywoman

   Все ба́бы — ду́ры; все мужики́ — сво́лочи — "Every woman is stupid, every man a bastard" (Russian folklore)

2. (childish) grandma, granny (short for бабушка)

   Мам, а где ба́ба? — Mom, where’s grandma?

3. (informal or archaic) old woman (short for бабушка)

   Жи́ли-бы́ли дед да ба́ба — There once lived an old man and his old woman.

4. (obsolete) peasant’s wife, peasant woman
5. (weak man) milksop, old woman
6. (technical) ram (of pile driver)
7. (technical) drop weight
8. (cooking) baba (tall, cylindrical cake)

   ро́мовая ба́ба — rum baba, rum cake

9. сне́жная ба́ба — snowman
10. ка́менная ба́ба — primitive stone statue

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• бабушка, бабёнка
• Баба-Яга, Бабий Яр
• бабуся, бабка, бабник, бабство
• бабий, бабский

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[edit] Serbian

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баба f. (plural бабе) (Roman spelling baba)

1. grandmother
2. grandma
3. granny
4. old woman

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[edit] Ukrainian

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баба (bába) f.

1. grandmother, granny, old woman (in some cases maternal grandmother only).
2. name of a special, delicate ritual bread that is blessed by a priest at Easter (also called бабка, babka).
3. a name given to сніп (snip) at Christmas, a sheaf of grain (wheat or rye), brought into the home for Christmas Eve supper (sviatá vechéra), placed in a corner of the room and later fed to livestock or cattle.
4. a fortune teller or witch, practising the art of віск зливати (wax pouring).
5. sexy bitch (girlfriend or wife).