babka
See also: babką and bábka
English
Etymology
From a Slavic language likely via Yiddish באַבקע (babke). Compare baba, in the sense of "rum soaked cake".
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈbɑb.kə/
Noun
babka (plural babkas)
- A Central and Eastern European coffee cake flavored with orange rind, rum, almonds, and raisins.
Translations
coffee cake
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Anagrams
- kabab
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbapka]
- Rhymes: -apka
Noun
babka f
- (informal) old woman.
- Synonym: → stařena
- the mushroom Xerocomellus chrysenteron.
- Synonym: hřib žlutomasý
Declension
Declension of babka
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | babka | babky |
| genitive | babky | babek |
| dative | babce | babkám |
| accusative | babku | babky |
| vocative | babko | babky |
| locative | babce | babkách |
| instrumental | babkou | babkami |
Related terms
- baba
- sýkora babka
- za babku
Further reading
- babka in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- babka in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- babka in Internetová jazyková příručka
Lower Sorbian
Etymology
baba + -ka.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbapka]
Noun
babka f
- Diminutive of baba
- midwife.
Declension
Declension of babka
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | babka | babce | babki |
| Genitive | babki | babkowu | babkow |
| Dative | babce | babkoma | babkam |
| Accusative | babku | babce | babki |
| Instrumental | babku | babkoma | babkami |
| Locative | babce | babkoma | babkach |
Further reading
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “babka”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999), “babka”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
Old Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *babъka. By surface analysis, baba + -ka. First attested in the second half of the 14th century.
Noun
babka f
- Diminutive of baba (“grandma, parent's mother”)
- Diminutive of baba (“midwife”)
- (in the plural, astronomy) Diminutive of baba (“Pleiades”)
- plantain
- greater plantain (Plantago major)
- ribwort plantain (Plantago lanceolata)
- hoary plantain, Plantago media
Declension
Declension of babka
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | babka | — | babki |
| genitive | — | — | — |
| dative | — | — | — |
| accusative | babkę | babce | — |
| instrumental | — | — | — |
| locative | — | — | — |
| vocative | — | — | — |
Descendants
- Polish: babka
References
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “babka”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
babka (#1)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish babka, from Proto-Slavic *babъka. By surface analysis, baba + -ka. First attested in the second half of the 14th century.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbap.ka/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -apka
- Syllabification: bab‧ka
Noun
babka f (diminutive babeczka)
- Diminutive of baba.
- babka (a type of cake)
- Synonym: baba
- grandmother
- Synonyms: baba, babcia, babunia
- (colloquial) woman
- Synonyms: babeczka, kobieta
- (historical) medicine woman
- sandcastle
- Synonym: babka z piasku
- plantain (any plant of the genus Plantago)
- any fish of the genus Perciformes
Declension
Declension of babka
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | babka | babki |
| genitive | babki | babek |
| dative | babce | babkom |
| accusative | babkę | babki |
| instrumental | babką | babkami |
| locative | babce | babkach |
| vocative | babko | babki |
Derived terms
adjectives
- babczany
- babkowaty
nouns
- babka bycza
- babka lancetowata
- babka piaskowa
- babka z piasku
- babkowate
- cioteczna babka
- ciuciubabka
- stryjeczna babka
- ślepa babka
phrase
- na dwoje babka wróżyła
References
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “babka”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Further reading
- babka in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- babka in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- “babka”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish], 2010-2022
- Paweł Kupiszewski (19.12.2018), “BABKA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807-1814), “babka”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “babka”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “babka”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 78
- babka in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego