babica

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From bȁba +‎ -ica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bâbit͡sa/
• Hyphenation: ba‧bi‧ca
• Rhymes: -it͡sa

Noun

bȁbica f (Cyrillic spelling ба̏бица)

1. midwife
2. (obsolete) wet nurse
3. nanny
4. (term of endearment) grandmother

Declension

Declension of babica

	singular	plural
nominative	babica	babice
genitive	babice	babica
dative	babici	babicama
accusative	babicu	babice
vocative	babice	babice
locative	babici	babicama
instrumental	babicom	babicama

References

• “babica”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

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Slovene

Etymology

From bába +‎ -ica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bàːbit͡sa/

Noun

bábica f

1. midwife
2. grandmother

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	bábica
gen. sing.	bábice
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	bábica	bábici	bábice
genitive (rodȋlnik)	bábice	bábic	bábic
dative (dajȃlnik)	bábici	bábicama	bábicam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	bábico	bábici	bábice
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	bábici	bábicah	bábicah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	bábico	bábicama	bábicami

Derived terms

• prȃbábica

Further reading

• “babica”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran