baba.
woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old)
Meaning & usage
woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) woman; wife; girlfriend (female romantic partner, especially married)
woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) grandmother (mother of one's mother or father)
woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) female teacher
woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) village woman (woman from a village)
woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) village seller (woman who sells things from a village)
woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) hag (evil female character)
woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) grain hag (demon in the form of an old woman who scares children not to go into the grain)
woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) hag (unspecified, mythical figure of a woman in Grzybek on the Black Water Bridge, whose buttocks must be kissed by all who go to Osie for the first time)
woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) hag; witch, spellcaster
woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) female beggar (woman who begs)
woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) midwife
woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) female hireling; female worker
woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) female pimp
woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) snowwoman
woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) synonym of znachorka
woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) synonym of płaczka (“mourner, griever”)
woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) queen
woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) idol (female-shaped pillar representing a deity, an object of worship)
pansy, big girl's blouse (male of weak or cowardly character)
babka (cake in the shape of a truncated cone, with a round base, baked in a large, special form)
ram (hydraulic hammer)
ram (hydraulic hammer) driver (thick piece of wood for driving piles, pressing oil, etc.)
large sheaf
coal opening (hole in a stove for coals poured in to heat the room more quickly)
star (luminous celestial body)
Pleiades
old, thick pine
stool circle (short, thick, wooden circle in a spinning wheel attached to a screw at the stool)
any of various freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus
chimney side (side channel in a brick chimney)
Christmas bundle (bundle of straw placed on the floor on Christmas Eve)
blunt end (wider end of an egg)
end (last sheaf of grain)
end (last potato bush)
horsing around (playing around with grain equipment)
nimbus (dark cloud)
net windlass (manual windlass for pulling nets out the water)
stack center (structural element of a grain or hay stack; the central, inner part of the stack)
potato cake (baked good made with potatoes)
hag (person in disguise taking part in the ritual round of houses before the Epiphany)
sliver (bundle of unspun fibres)
batlet (stick for washing laundry in a river or pond)
scarecrow
type of dance, considered the most famous
smoke exhaust (hole in the ceiling through which smoke escapes into the chimney)
pocket (air under thin ice)
kissing block (wooden block carved in the shape of a human head given to new rafters to kiss by rafters who are helping the new rafters with the rafting for the first time)
seine barrel (narrow barrel with a pole through it, used for winding a seine line while fishing later placed on a sled on ice)
starting peg (peg that starts a game of croquet)
tamping block (oak block with a handle used for tamping when laying stones, spreading gravel on road surfaces, etc.)
painting pillow (leather pillow for applying paint in manual printing of canvases)
plug (bundle of rags, wooden board for plugging the cavity of a stove or chimney)
bogie (booger)
hay block (bundle of hay used as a blockade for dangerous passages)
hat form (a wooden form on which hats are ironed and shaped)
boathook
plantain (any plant of the genus Plantago)
type of bulbous pear
tight knot (knot on a mast twist that raftsmen can't undo)
raft block (bundle of straw that will be placed in dangerous places on rivers to prevent the raft from running aground)
synonym of posułt
Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius)
type of wild duck
leather ball
pelican (seabird of the family Pelecanidae)
tuna (fish of the genus Thunnus)
whipping block
type of cannon; gun
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Balto-Slavic *bā́ˀbāˀ Proto-Slavic *bàba Old Polish baba Polish baba Inherited from Old Polish baba.
balbal (stone figure used in cult or spiritual functions)
jail; dungeon
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Old Anatolian Turkish بَبَا (baba) Ottoman Turkish بابا (baba) Turkish bababor. Polish baba Borrowed from Turkish baba. First attested in 1633, but in common usage only as of the 20th century.
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