baba
Polish
noun
Definitions
- (colloquial) woman
- (colloquial) wife, girlfriend
- a type of cake
- crone, hag
- (obsolete) grandmother
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *baba (old woman) inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bā́ˀbāˀ.
Origin
Proto-Balto-Slavic
*bā́ˀbāˀ
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- baba English
- baba Finnish
- bába Hungarian
- baba French
- баба Russian
- babi Polish
- babiarz Polish
- babka Polish
- babsko Polish
- babula Polish
- babuleńka Polish
- babulka Polish
- babunia Polish
- herod Polish
- herod-baba Polish
- prababka Polish
- *baba Proto-Slavic
- baba Czech
- bába Czech
- baba Serbo-Croatian
- баба Serbo-Croatian
- بابا Persian
- баба Bulgarian
- באַבקע Yiddish
- баба Macedonian
- баба Ukrainian
- babã Aromanian
- baba Slovak
- баба Belarusian
- baba Slovene
- баба Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- boba Lithuanian
- баба Old East Slavic
- baba Lower Sorbian
- *bā́ˀbāˀ Proto-Balto-Slavic
- pāpa Old Persian
- baba Upper Sorbian
- bãbă Slovincian