babă

babă

See also: Appendix:Variations of "baba"

Polabian

Alternative forms

• bobă, bobo

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *baba, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bā́ˀbāˀ, from nursery language.

Noun

babă f

1. grandmother

Related terms

nouns

• bopkă f (“midwife”)

 

References

• Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński; Kazimierz Polański (1962), “babə”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological dictionary of the Polabian Drevani language] (in Polish), volume 1: A — Ďüzd, Wrocław – Warszawa – Kraków: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, page 22
• Kazimierz Polański; James Allen Sehnert (1967), “babă”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 35
• Reinhold Olesch (1962), “Baba”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volume 1: A – O, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 10

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic баба (baba), from Proto-Slavic *baba (“old woman”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈba.bə]
• Rhymes: -abə

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Noun

babă f (plural babe)

1. old woman

Declension

Declension of babă

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) babă	baba	(niște) babe	babele
genitive/dative	(unei) babe	babei	(unor) babe	babelor
vocative	babă, babo		babelor

Synonyms

• bătrână
• vârstnică

Related terms

• fată bătrână

See also

• moș

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Slovincian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *baba, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bā́ˀbāˀ, from nursery language.

Noun

bãbă f

1. old woman
2. (derogatory) woman, broad
3. female animal

Declension

Declension of babă

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	bãbă	bãbă	bãbä
Genitive	bãbä	—	bãbȯu̯
Dative	bãbjä	bãbɵmă	bãbȯu̯m
Accusative	bãbą	—	bãbä
Instrumental	bãbȯų̯	bãbɵmă	babamḯ
Locative	bãbjä	—	bãbăχ
Vocative	—	—	—

References

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1908) Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎ (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 10