Baba Yaga

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English

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Baba Yaga, by Viktor Vasnetsov

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *baba ęga (literally hag of terror), probably through Russian Ба́ба-Яга́ (Bába-Jagá).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌbɑːbə ˈjɑːɡə/, enPR: bä'bə yäʹgə
  • Rhymes: -ɑːɡə
  • Hyphenation: Ba‧ba Ya‧ga

Proper noun

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Baba Yaga

  1. (Slavic mythology) In Russian, Finno-Ugric, Polish and Bulgarian tales, a hag who lives in a hut standing on chicken legs and who flies through the air in a mortar, using the pestle as a rudder. She behaves ambivalently and may be either amiable or hostile.
    • 2020, Ben Creed, City of Ghosts, London: Welbeck Publishing, →ISBN, page 143:
      [L]ooking like the hut, minus the fat chicken legs, of Baba Yaga, the old witch with iron teeth and an appetite for a human supper.

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *baba ęga (literally hag of terror), probably through Russian Ба́ба-Яга́ (Bába-Jagá).

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Proper noun

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a Baba Yaga f

  1. (Slavic mythology) Baba Yaga

Spanish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *baba ęga (literally hag of terror), probably through Russian Ба́ба-Яга́ (Bába-Jagá).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˌbaba ʝaˈɡa/ [ˌba.β̞a ʝaˈɣ̞a]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˌbaba ʃaˈɡa/ [ˌba.β̞a ʃaˈɣ̞a]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˌbaba ʒaˈɡa/ [ˌba.β̞a ʒaˈɣ̞a]

  • Syllabification: Ba‧ba Ya‧ga

Proper noun

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Baba Yaga f

  1. (Slavic mythology) Baba Yaga