babka.
diminutive of baba
Meaning & usage
diminutive of baba
grandmother
woman
medicine woman
babka (type of cake)
sandcastle
plantain (any plant of the genus Plantago)
goby (any of various small fish from the large family Gobiidae)
type of medicinal plant
particular part of a furnace/oven
woman's companion assistant
diminutive of baba (“beggar”)
mound of several sheaves of grain placed in a field
type of edible mushroom
stone closing the entrance to the mine
stone used to close a blast furnace acting as a furnace door
hammer with the same head on both sides
anvil for bending padlock shackles
small anvil used for tapping a scythe
dragonfly
small cannon
type of old, small Polish currency
die used in a particular children's game
midwife
blind man's buff
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Balto-Slavic *bā́ˀbāˀ Proto-Slavic *baba Proto-Indo-European *-keh₂der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *-kāˀ Proto-Slavic *-ъka Proto-Slavic *babъka Old Polish babka Polish babka Inherited from Old Polish babka. By surface analysis, baba + -ka.
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