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baba.

woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old)

4 characters2 syllables approx.Polski language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈba.ba//ˈba.ba/Middle, Polish[ˈba.ba][ˈba.ba]
  1. woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) woman; wife; girlfriend (female romantic partner, especially married)

    colloquial · derogatory · dialectal · feminine · Łowicz
  2. woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) grandmother (mother of one's mother or father)

    childish · colloquial · derogatory · dialectal · feminine
  3. woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) female teacher

    colloquial · derogatory · dialectal · feminine
  4. woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) village woman (woman from a village)

    colloquial · derogatory · dialectal · feminine
  5. woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) village seller (woman who sells things from a village)

    colloquial · derogatory · dialectal · feminine
  6. woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) hag (evil female character)

    colloquial · derogatory · dialectal · feminine
  7. 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)

    colloquial · derogatory · dialectal · feminine
  8. 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)

    colloquial · derogatory · dialectal · feminine · obsolete
  9. woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) hag; witch, spellcaster

    colloquial · derogatory · dialectal · feminine · obsolete
  10. woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) female beggar (woman who begs)

    colloquial · derogatory · dialectal · feminine · obsolete
  11. woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) midwife

    colloquial · derogatory · dialectal · feminine · obsolete
  12. woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) female hireling; female worker

    colloquial · derogatory · dialectal · feminine · obsolete
  13. woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) female pimp

    colloquial · derogatory · dialectal · feminine · obsolete
  14. woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) snowwoman

    colloquial · derogatory · dialectal · feminine · obsolete
  15. woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) synonym of znachorka

    Middle · Polish · colloquial · derogatory · dialectal · feminine
  16. woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) synonym of płaczka (“mourner, griever”)

    Middle · Polish · colloquial · derogatory · dialectal · feminine
  17. woman, crone, hag (female person; often one causing problems or one that is old) queen

    Middle · Polish · colloquial · derogatory · dialectal · feminine
  18. 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)

    Middle · Polish · colloquial · derogatory · dialectal · feminine
  19. pansy, big girl's blouse (male of weak or cowardly character)

    derogatory · feminine
  20. babka (cake in the shape of a truncated cone, with a round base, baked in a large, special form)

    feminine
  21. ram (hydraulic hammer)

    feminine
  22. ram (hydraulic hammer) driver (thick piece of wood for driving piles, pressing oil, etc.)

    feminine
  23. large sheaf

    feminine
  24. coal opening (hole in a stove for coals poured in to heat the room more quickly)

    feminine
  25. star (luminous celestial body)

    feminine
  26. Pleiades

    feminine · in-plural
  27. old, thick pine

    feminine
  28. stool circle (short, thick, wooden circle in a spinning wheel attached to a screw at the stool)

    feminine · Łowicz
  29. any of various freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus

    feminine
  30. chimney side (side channel in a brick chimney)

    feminine · Łowicz
  31. Christmas bundle (bundle of straw placed on the floor on Christmas Eve)

    feminine
  32. blunt end (wider end of an egg)

    feminine
  33. end (last sheaf of grain)

    feminine
  34. end (last potato bush)

    feminine
  35. horsing around (playing around with grain equipment)

    feminine
  36. nimbus (dark cloud)

    feminine
  37. net windlass (manual windlass for pulling nets out the water)

    feminine
  38. stack center (structural element of a grain or hay stack; the central, inner part of the stack)

    feminine
  39. potato cake (baked good made with potatoes)

    feminine
  40. hag (person in disguise taking part in the ritual round of houses before the Epiphany)

    feminine
  41. sliver (bundle of unspun fibres)

    feminine
  42. batlet (stick for washing laundry in a river or pond)

    feminine
  43. scarecrow

    feminine
  44. type of dance, considered the most famous

    feminine
  45. smoke exhaust (hole in the ceiling through which smoke escapes into the chimney)

    feminine · in-plural
  46. pocket (air under thin ice)

    feminine
  47. 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)

    feminine · obsolete
  48. seine barrel (narrow barrel with a pole through it, used for winding a seine line while fishing later placed on a sled on ice)

    dialectal · feminine · obsolete
  49. starting peg (peg that starts a game of croquet)

    feminine · obsolete
  50. tamping block (oak block with a handle used for tamping when laying stones, spreading gravel on road surfaces, etc.)

    feminine · obsolete
  51. painting pillow (leather pillow for applying paint in manual printing of canvases)

    feminine · obsolete
  52. plug (bundle of rags, wooden board for plugging the cavity of a stove or chimney)

    dialectal · feminine · obsolete
  53. bogie (booger)

    feminine
  54. hay block (bundle of hay used as a blockade for dangerous passages)

    feminine · obsolete
  55. hat form (a wooden form on which hats are ironed and shaped)

    feminine · obsolete
  56. boathook

    feminine · obsolete
  57. plantain (any plant of the genus Plantago)

    feminine · obsolete
  58. type of bulbous pear

    dialectal · feminine · obsolete
  59. tight knot (knot on a mast twist that raftsmen can't undo)

    feminine · obsolete
  60. raft block (bundle of straw that will be placed in dangerous places on rivers to prevent the raft from running aground)

    feminine · obsolete
  61. synonym of posułt

    feminine · obsolete
  62. Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius)

    feminine · obsolete
  63. type of wild duck

    feminine · obsolete
  64. leather ball

    feminine · obsolete
  65. pelican (seabird of the family Pelecanidae)

    feminine · obsolete
  66. tuna (fish of the genus Thunnus)

    feminine · obsolete
  67. whipping block

    Middle · Polish · feminine
  68. type of cannon; gun

    Middle · Polish · feminine
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Balto-Slavic *bā́ˀbāˀ Proto-Slavic *bàba Old Polish baba Polish baba Inherited from Old Polish baba.

noun/ˈba.ba//ˈba.ba/Middle, Polish[ˈba.ba][ˈba.ba]
  1. balbal (stone figure used in cult or spiritual functions)

    feminine
  2. jail; dungeon

    Middle · Polish · feminine
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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