babă

See also: Appendix:Variations of "baba"

Polabian

Alternative forms

• bobă, bobo

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *baba, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bā́ˀbāˀ, from nursery language.

Noun

babă f

1. grandmother

Related terms

nouns

• bopkă f (“midwife”)

References

• Lehr-Spławiński, T.; Polański, K. (1962), “babə”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 1 (A – ďüzd), Wrocław; Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 22
• Polański, Kazimierz; James Allen Sehnert (1967), “babă”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 35
• Olesch, Reinhold (1962), “Baba”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 1: A – O, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 10

Romanian

Alternative forms

• бабэ (babă) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic баба (baba), from Proto-Slavic *baba (“old woman”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.bə/

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• Rhymes: -abə
• Hyphenation: ba‧bă

Noun

babă f (plural babe)

1. old woman

   Synonyms: bătrână, vârstnică

2. (regional) grandmother
3. (regional) midwife
4. coward

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	babă	baba	babe	babele
genitive-dative	babe	babei	babe	babelor
vocative	babă, babo		babelor

Related terms

• Baba Iaga

See also

• fată bătrână
• moș

Further reading

• “babă”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026