Baba Yaga

English

Baba Yaga (by Viktor Vasnetsov)

Etymology

Ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Slavic *baba ęga, probably through (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Russian Ба́ба-Яга́ (Bába-Jagá).

Proper noun

Baba Yaga

1. (Slavic mythology) In Russian, Finno-Ugric, Polish, and Bulgarian tales, a hag who lives in a hut that stands on chicken legs and who flies through the air in a mortar, using the pestle as a rudder.

Translations

hag who flies through the air in a mortar

• Arabic: بَابَا يَاجَا f (bābā yāgā), بَابَا يَاجَا f (bābā yājā), بَابَا يَاغَا f (bābā yāgā), بَابَا يَاغَا f (bābā yāḡā)
• Armenian: Բաբա Յագա (Baba Yaga)
• Azerbaijani: Küpəgirən qarı
• Belarusian: Ба́ба-Яга́ (Bába-Jahá)
• Bulgarian: Ба́ба Я́га f (Bába Jága)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 芭芭雅嘎 (Bābāyǎgā), 雅加婆婆 (Yǎjiā Pópo), 巴巴亞加／巴巴亚加, 巴巴亚加 (Bābāyàjiā)

• Czech: Ježibaba f, Baba Jaga f, Baba Rohu f
• Danish: Baba Yaga
• Dutch: Baba Jaga f
• Finnish: Baba Jaga
• French: Baba Yaga f
• Georgian: ბაბა იაგა (baba iaga)
• German: Baba Jaga (de) f
• Greek: Μπάμπα Γιάγκα f (Bámpa Giágka)
• Hebrew: בַּאבָּה יַאגָה f (bába-yagá)
• Hindi: बाबा यागा f (bābā yāgā)
• Hungarian: vasorrú bába, vasfogú bába, baba-jaga
• Italian: Baba Yaga f
• Japanese: バーバ・ヤーガ (Bāba-Yāga)
• Korean: 바바야가 (Baba-yaga), 바바 야가 (Baba Yaga)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latvian: Baba Jaga f
• Macedonian: Ба́ба Ро́га f (Bába Róga)
• Marathi: बाबा यागा f (bābā yāgā)
• Norwegian: Baba Jaga
• Persian: بابا یاگا (bâbâ yâgâ)
• Polish: Baba Jaga (pl) f, Baba-Jaga f, Baba Jędza f, Baba Rogu f
• Portuguese: Baba Yaga f, Baba Iaga f
• Romanian: Baba Iaga f
• Russian: Ба́ба-Яга́ (ru) f (Bába-Jagá), Ба́бка-Ёжка f (Bábka-Jóžka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Баба Јага f, Баба Рога f, Баба Зима f

  Roman: Baba Jaga f, Baba Roga f, Baba Zima f

• Slovak: Ježibaba f, Baba Jaga
• Slovene: Jaga baba f
• Spanish: Baba Yaga f
• Swedish: Baba-Jaga
• Turkish: Baba Yaga, Yek (tr), Yeg, Yiğ
• Ukrainian: Ба́ба-Яга́ f (Bába-Jahá)
• Urdu: بابا یاگا f (bābā yāgā)
• Vietnamese: Baba-Yaga
• Yakut: Дьэгэ-Бааба (Jege-Baaba)

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Baba Yaga f

1. (Slavic mythology) Baba Yaga (hag who flies through the air in a mortar)

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Spanish

Proper noun

Baba Yaga f

1. (Slavic mythology) Baba Yaga (hag who flies through the air in a mortar)