bába
Hungarian
noun
Definitions
- midwife
- (dialectal) old woman
- (dialectal) witch
Etymology
Derived from Proto-Slavic *baba (old woman).
Origin
Proto-Slavic
*baba
Gloss
old woman
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
婆
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bábák Hungarian
- bábát Hungarian
- orr Hungarian
- vas Hungarian
- vasorrú bába Hungarian
- баба Russian
- baba Polish
- *baba Proto-Slavic
- baba Czech
- bába Czech
- baba Serbo-Croatian
- баба Serbo-Croatian
- баба Bulgarian
- баба Macedonian
- баба Ukrainian
- babã Aromanian
- baba Slovak
- баба Belarusian
- baba Slovene
- баба Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- баба Old East Slavic
- baba Lower Sorbian
- *bā́ˀbāˀ Proto-Balto-Slavic
- baba Upper Sorbian
- bãbă Slovincian