баба
Avar
Etymology
From Proto-Avaro-Andian: *babV (~ -o-), from Proto-Avaro-Andian: *babV (~ -o-)
Alternative forms
- буба (buba)
Noun
баба • (baba)
See also
- эбел (ebel)
Bulgarian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *baba.
Pronunciation
Noun
ба́ба • (bába) f
- grandmother, grandma, granny, gran
- old woman, goody, granny
- mother-in-law (one’s wife’s mother)
- midwife, wise woman
- wise woman, sorceress, witch
- woman, weakling, milksop, mollycoddle, molly, old maid
- monkey
Inflection
Further reading
Kazakh
Alternative scripts | |
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Arabic | بابا |
Cyrillic | баба |
Latin | baba |
Yañalif | ʙaʙa |
Noun
баба • (baba)
Macedonian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *baba.
Pronunciation
Noun
- grandmother, grandma, granny, gran
- old woman, goody, granny
- mother-in-law (one’s wife’s mother)
- midwife
Inflection
Old Church Slavonic
Alternative forms
- (Glagolitic): ⰱⰰⰱⰰ (baba)
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *baba.
Noun
баба • (baba) f
Old East Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *baba.
Noun
баба (baba) f
Descendants
References
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Russian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *baba.
Pronunciation
Noun
ба́ба • (bába) f anim or f inan (genitive ба́бы, nominative plural ба́бы, genitive plural баб)
- (childish) grandma, granny (short for ба́бушка (bábuška))
- (informal or archaic) old woman (short for ба́бушка (bábuška))
- (colloquial, slang, derogatory) woman, female, broad; countrywoman
- (obsolete) peasant’s wife, peasant woman
- (derogatory) milksop, old woman (weak man)
- (technical) ram (of a pile driver)
- (technical) drop weight
- (cooking) baba (tall, cylindrical cake), bundt cake, Gugelhupf
- in expressions
Declension
Related terms
- ба́бушка (bábuška), бабёнка (babjónka)
- Ба́ба-Яга́ (Bába-Jagá), Ба́бий Яр (Bábij Jar)
- бабу́ся (babúsja), ба́бка (bábka), ба́бник (bábnik), бабство (babstvo)
- ба́бий (bábij), бабский (babskij)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *baba.
Pronunciation
Noun
ба̏ба f (Latin spelling bȁba)
- grandmother
- granny, grandma
- (usually derogatory) old woman
- (derogatory) female person
Declension
Synonyms
References
- “баба” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Ukrainian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *baba.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
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- grandmother, granny, old woman (in some cases maternal grandmother only).
- name of a special, delicate ritual bread that is blessed by a priest at Easter (also called бабка, babka).
- a name given to сніп (snip) at Christmas, a sheaf of grain (wheat or rye), brought into the home for Christmas Eve supper (svjatá večérja), placed in a corner of the room and later fed to livestock or cattle.
- a fortune teller or witch, practising the art of віск зливати (wax pouring).
- sexy bitch (girlfriend or wife).
Declension
References
- Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “баба”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
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