баба
See also: Appendix:Variations of "baba"
Bulgarian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *baba.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbabə/
Noun
ба́ба • (bába) f
Inflection
Macedonian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *baba.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbaba]
Noun
баба • (baba) f (plural баби)
- grandmother, grandma, granny, gran
- old woman, goody, granny
- mother-in-law (one’s wife’s mother)
- midwife
Old East Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *baba.
References
- Sreznevskij, I. I. (1893), “баба”, in Materialy dlja slovarja drevne-russkago jazyka po pisʹmennym pamjatnikam [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old Russian Language According to Written Monuments] (in Russian), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 35
Russian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *baba.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbabə]
audio (file)
Noun
ба́ба • (bába) f anim or f inan (genitive ба́бы, nominative plural ба́бы, genitive plural баб)
- (derogatory) woman, countrywoman
- (childish) grandma, granny (short for ба́бушка (bábuška))
- (informal or archaic) old woman (short for ба́бушка (bábuška))
- (colloquial, slang, derogatory) woman, female, broad
- (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
Declension of ба́ба (bian fem-form hard-stem accent-a)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *baba.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bâba/
- Hyphenation: ба‧ба
Noun
ба̏ба f (Latin spelling bȁba)
- grandmother
- granny, grandma
- (usually derogatory) old woman
- (derogatory) female person
Declension
Synonyms
- (grandmother; grandma): ба́ка, нена
Ukrainian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *baba.
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
ба́ба • (bába) f anim (genitive ба́би, nominative plural баби́)
- 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
- баба in Bilodid I. K., editor (1970–1980) Slovnyk ukrajinsʹkoji movy, Kiev: Naukova Dumka
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