баба

Russian

noun+
Definitions
  • (childish) grandma, granny
  • (informal) old woman
  • (historical) (any) woman; countrywoman
  • (colloquial) woman, female, broad; countrywoman
  • (obsolete) peasant’s wife, peasant woman
  • (pejorative) milksop, old woman weak man
  • (technical) ram
  • (technical) drop weight
  • (cooking) baba tall, cylindrical cake, bundt cake, Gugelhupf
  • in expressions

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *baba (old woman).

Origin

Proto-Slavic

*baba

Gloss

old woman

Concept
Semantic Field

Kinship

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

婆

Emoji

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