баба

• буба (buba)

баба • (baba)

1. mother; mom, mum

• эбел (èbel)

From Proto-Slavic *baba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbabə/

ба́ба • (bába) f

1. grandmother, grandma, granny, gran
2. old woman, goody, granny
3. mother-in-law (one’s wife’s mother)
4. midwife, wise woman
5. wise woman, sorceress, witch
6. woman, weakling, milksop, mollycoddle, molly, old maid
7. monkey

• баба in Речник на българския език

баба • (baba)

1. grandfather

From Proto-Slavic *baba.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaba]

баба • (baba) f (plural баби)

1. grandmother, grandma, granny, gran
2. old woman, goody, granny
3. mother-in-law (one’s wife’s mother)
4. midwife

• (Glagolitic): ⰱⰰⰱⰰ (baba)

From Proto-Slavic *baba.

баба • (baba) f

1. grandmother
2. midwife
3. wet nurse

From Proto-Slavic *baba.

баба (baba) f

1. married woman
2. midwife
3. fortune teller, hex
4. (in the plural) women

• Russian: ба́ба (bába)
• Ukrainian: ба́ба (bába)

• 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

From Proto-Slavic *baba.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbabə]

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ба́ба • (bába) f anim or f inan (genitive ба́бы, nominative plural ба́бы, genitive plural баб)

1. (derogatory) woman, countrywoman

   Все ба́бы — ду́ры; все мужики́ — сво́лочи (contemporary Russian saying)

   Vse báby — dúry; vse mužikí — svóloči

   "Every woman is stupid, every man a bastard"

2. (childish) grandma, granny (short for ба́бушка (bábuška))

   Ма́ма, а где ба́ба? ― Máma, a gde bába? ― Mom, where’s grandma?

3. (informal or archaic) old woman (short for ба́бушка (bábuška))

   Жи́ли-бы́ли дед да ба́ба. ― Žíli-býli ded da bába. ― There once lived an old man and his old woman.

4. (colloquial, slang, derogatory) woman, female, broad

   Кто э́та ба́ба? ― Kto éta bába? ― Who's that broad?

5. (obsolete) peasant’s wife, peasant woman
6. (derogatory) milksop, old woman (weak man)
7. (technical) ram (of a pile driver)
8. (technical) drop weight
9. (cooking) baba (tall, cylindrical cake), bundt cake, Gugelhupf

   ро́мовая ба́ба ― rómovaja bába ― rum baba, rum cake

10. in expressions

    сне́жная ба́ба ― snéžnaja bába ― snowman

    ка́менная ба́ба ― kámennaja bába ― primitive stone statue

• ба́бушка (bábuška), бабёнка (babjónka)
• Ба́ба-Яга́ (Bába-Jagá), Ба́бий Яр (Bábij Jar)
• бабу́ся (babúsja), ба́бка (bábka), ба́бник (bábnik), бабство (babstvo)
• ба́бий (bábij), бабский (babskij)

From Proto-Slavic *baba.

• IPA^(key): /bâba/
• Hyphenation: ба‧ба

ба̏ба f (Latin spelling bȁba)

1. grandmother
2. granny, grandma
3. (usually derogatory) old woman
4. (derogatory) female person

• (grandmother; grandma): ба́ка, нена

• “баба” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Proto-Slavic *baba.

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ба́ба • (bába) f anim (genitive ба́би, nominative plural баби́)

1. grandmother, granny, old woman (in some cases maternal grandmother only).
2. name of a special, delicate ritual bread that is blessed by a priest at Easter (also called бабка, babka).
3. 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.
4. a fortune teller or witch, practising the art of віск зливати (wax pouring).
5. sexy bitch (girlfriend or wife).

• баба in Bilodid I. K., editor (1970–1980) Slovnyk ukrajinsʹkoji movy, Kiev: Naukova Dumka