babka

From a Slavic language likely via Yiddish באַבקע‎ (babke). Compare baba, in the sense of "rum soaked cake".

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑb.kə/

babka (plural babkas)

1. A Central and Eastern European coffee cake flavored with orange rind, rum, almonds, and raisins; or with some single flavoring, e.g. chocolate, lemon, etc.

• kabab

• IPA^(key): [ˈbapka]
• Rhymes: -apka

babka f

1. (informal) old woman

   Synonym: stařena

2. the mushroom Xerocomellus chrysenteron

   Synonym: hřib žlutomasý

• babka in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• babka in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• babka in Internetová jazyková příručka

Borrowed from English babka, most likely from Yiddish באַבקע‎ (babke), from Slavic.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbap.ka/
• Rhymes: -ka, -a
• Hyphenation: bab‧ka

babka (plural babka-babka, first-person possessive babkaku, second-person possessive babkamu, third-person possessive babkanya)

1. (cooking) babka: a Central and Eastern European coffee cake flavored with orange rind, rum, almonds, and raisins.

• “babka” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

baba +‎ -ka.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbapka]

babka f

1. Diminutive of baba
2. midwife.

• 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

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *babъka. By surface analysis, baba +‎ -ka. First attested in the second half of the 14th century.

babka f

1. Diminutive of baba (“grandma, parent's mother”)
2. Diminutive of baba (“midwife”)
3. (in the plural, astronomy) Diminutive of baba (“Pleiades”)
4. plantain
   1. greater plantain (Plantago major)
   2. ribwort plantain (Plantago lanceolata)
   3. hoary plantain, Plantago media

• Polish: babka

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “babka”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

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]

• IPA^(key): /ˈbap.ka/

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• Rhymes: -apka
• Syllabification: bab‧ka

babka f (diminutive babeczka)

1. Diminutive of baba.
2. babka (a type of cake)

   Synonym: baba

3. grandmother

   Synonyms: baba, babcia, babunia

4. (colloquial) woman

   Synonyms: babeczka, kobieta

5. (historical) medicine woman
6. sandcastle

   Synonym: babka z piasku

7. plantain (any plant of the genus Plantago)
8. any fish of the genus Perciformes

• 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