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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From a Slavic language likely via Yiddish באַבקע (babke). Compare baba, in the sense of "rum soaked cake".
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
babka (plural babkas)
- 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.
Translations[edit]
coffee cake
Anagrams[edit]
Czech[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
babka f
- (informal) old woman
- Synonym: stařena
- the mushroom Xerocomellus chrysenteron
- Synonym: hřib žlutomasý
Declension[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- babka in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- babka in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- babka in Internetová jazyková příručka
Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English babka, most likely from Yiddish באַבקע (babke), from Slavic.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
babka (plural babka-babka, first-person possessive babkaku, second-person possessive babkamu, third-person possessive babkanya)
- (cooking) babka: a Central and Eastern European coffee cake flavored with orange rind, rum, almonds, and raisins.
Further reading[edit]
- “babka” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Lower Sorbian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
babka f pers
- Diminutive of baba (“midwife, old woman, woman”)
- midwife
Declension[edit]
Declension of babka
Noun[edit]
babka f inan
- Diminutive of baba (“sponge cake”)
Declension[edit]
Declension of babka
Further reading[edit]
- 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
Old Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *babъka. By surface analysis, baba + -ka. First attested in the second half of the 14th century.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
babka f
- Diminutive of baba (“grandma, parent's mother”)
- 1902 [1407], “Wybór zapisek sądowych grodzkich i ziemskich wielkopolskich z XV wieku”, in Franciszek Piekosiński, editor, Studia, rozprawy i materiały z dziedziny historii polskiej i prawa polskiego[1], volume 6, Greater Poland, page 323:
- Byesdrowsco przipadlo na Lesczinø babkø
- [Biezdrowsko przypadło na Leszczynę babkę]
- Diminutive of baba (“midwife”)
- Beginning of the 15th century, Łukasz z Wielkiego Koźmina, Kazania gnieźnieńskie[2], Krakow, page 4a:
- Ioseph podluk obyczaga neuesczego ku ge porodzenu gestcy on byl due bapcze veszual
- [Josef podług obyczaja niewieściego ku je porodzeniu jestci on był dwie babce wezwał]
- (in the plural, astronomy) Diminutive of baba (“Pleiades”)
- plantain; greater plantain (Plantago major)
- 1900 [1419], Józef Rostafiński, editor, Symbola ad historiam naturalem medii aevi = Średniowieczna historya naturalna w Polsce. Ps 2[4], number 5040:
- Babka arnoglossa, plantago maior
- [Babka arnoglossa, plantago maior]
- ribwort plantain (Plantago lanceolata)
- 1900 [1437], Józef Rostafiński, editor, Symbola ad historiam naturalem medii aevi = Średniowieczna historya naturalna w Polsce. Ps 2[5], number 2456:
- Babka arnoglossa, plantago minor
- [Babka arnoglossa, plantago minor]
- hoary plantain, Plantago media
- 1900 [1419], Józef Rostafiński, editor, Symbola ad historiam naturalem medii aevi = Średniowieczna historya naturalna w Polsce. Ps 2[6], number 5042:
- Kosmata babka auriculus leporis, plantago media
- [Kosmata babka auriculus leporis, plantago media]
- The meaning of this term is uncertain.
- (Can we date this quote?) [1450], rkps Archiwum i Biblioteki Krakowskiej Kapituły Katedralnej o sygn. KP 224., Uście Solne, Lviv:
- Babka citharia, plantago
- [Babka citharia, plantago]
Descendants[edit]
- Polish: babka
References[edit]
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “babka”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old Polish babka, from Proto-Slavic *babъka. By surface analysis, baba + -ka.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈbap.ka/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈbap.ka/, /ˈbɒp.ka/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -apka
- Syllabification: bab‧ka
Noun[edit]
babka f (diminutive babeczka)
- Diminutive of baba
- babka (a type of cake)
- Synonym: baba
- grandmother
- (colloquial) woman
- (historical) medicine woman
- sandcastle
- Synonym: babka z piasku
- plantain (any plant of the genus Plantago)
- any fish of the genus Perciformes
Declension[edit]
Declension of babka
Derived terms[edit]
adjectives
nouns
phrase
References[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- babka in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- babka in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “babka”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- 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[7]
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “babka”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861[8]
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “babka”, in Słownik języka polskiego[9] (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 78
- babka in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
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