Baba Yaga

English

Baba Yaga, by Viktor Vasnetsov

Alternative forms

• Baba Jaga

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *baba ęga (literally “hag of terror”), probably through Russian Ба́ба-Яга́ (Bába-Jagá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbɑːbə ˈjɑːɡə/, enPR: bä'bə yäʹgə
• Rhymes: -ɑːɡə
• Hyphenation: Ba‧ba Ya‧ga

Proper noun

Baba Yaga

1. (Slavic mythology) In Russian, Finno-Ugric, Polish and Bulgarian tales, a hag who lives in a hut standing on chicken legs and who flies through the air in a mortar, using the pestle as a rudder. She behaves ambivalently and may be either amiable or hostile.
   • 2020, Ben Creed, City of Ghosts, London: Welbeck Publishing, →ISBN, page 143:

     [L]ooking like the hut, minus the fat chicken legs, of Baba Yaga, the old witch with iron teeth and an appetite for a human supper.

Translations

hag in Slavic mythology who flies in a mortar

• Arabic: بَابَا يَاجَا f (bābā yāgā), بَابَا يَاجَا f (bābā yājā), بَابَا يَاغَا f (bābā yāgā), بَابَا يَاغَا f (bābā yāḡā)
• Armenian: Բաբա Յագա (Baba Yaga)
• Azerbaijani: Küpəgirən qarı
• Belarusian: Ба́ба-Яга́ f (Bába-Jahá)
• Bulgarian: Ба́ба Я́га f (Bába Jága)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 芭芭雅嘎 (Bābā Yǎgā), 雅加婆婆 (Yǎjiā Pópo), 巴巴亞加 / 巴巴亚加 (Bābā Yàjiā)

• Czech: Ježibaba f, Baba Jaga f, Baba Rohu f
• Danish: Baba Yaga c
• Dutch: Baba Jaga f
• Finnish: Baba Jaga
• French: Baba Yaga (fr) f
• Georgian: ბაბა იაგა (baba iaga)
• German: Baba Jaga (de) f
• Greek: Μπάμπα Γιάγκα f (Bámpa Giágka)
• Hebrew: בַּאבָּה יַאגָה f (Bába Yága), סַבְתָּא־אַשַּׁפְתָּא f (Sávta Asháfta)
• Hindi: बाबा यागा f (bābā yāgā)
• Hungarian: vasorrú bába (hu), vasfogú bába, baba-jaga
• Italian: Baba Jaga f
• Japanese: バーバ・ヤーガ (Bāba Yāga)
• Korean: 바바 야가 (Baba Yaga)
• Latvian: Baba Jaga f
• Macedonian: Ба́ба Ро́га f (Bába Róga), Ба́ба Ја́га f (Bába Jága)
• Marathi: बाबा यागा f (bābā yāgā)
• Norwegian: Baba Jaga f
• Persian: بابا یاگا (bâbâ yâgâ)
• Polish: Baba Jaga (pl) f, Baba Jędza f, Baba Rogu f
• Portuguese: Baba Yaga f, Baba Iaga f
• Romanian: Baba Iaga f
• Russian: Ба́ба-Яга́ (ru) f (Bába-Jagá), (joking) Ба́бка-Ёжка f (Bábka-Jóžka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Баба Јага f, Баба Рога f, Баба Зима f

  Roman: Baba Jaga f, Baba Roga f, Baba Zima f

• Slovak: Ježibaba f, Baba Jaga f
• Slovene: Jaga baba f
• Spanish: Baba Yaga f, Baba Yagá f
• Swedish: Baba-Jaga c
• Turkish: Baba Yaga, Yek (tr), Yeg, Yiğ
• Ukrainian: Ба́ба-Яга́ f (Bába-Jahá)
• Urdu: بابا یاگا f (bābā yāgā)
• Vietnamese: Baba-Yaga
• Yakut: Дьэгэ-Бааба (Jege-Baaba)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Baba Iaga

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *baba ęga (literally “hag of terror”), probably through Russian Ба́ба-Яга́ (Bába-Jagá).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈba.bɐ ˈja.ɡɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈba.bɐ ˈja.ɡɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈba.ba ˈja.ɡa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈba.bɐ ˈja.ɡɐ/ [ˈba.βɐ ˈja.ɣɐ]

• Rhymes: -aɡɐ

Proper noun

a Baba Yaga f

1. (Slavic mythology) Baba Yaga

Spanish

Alternative forms

• Baba Yagá

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *baba ęga (literally “hag of terror”), probably through Russian Ба́ба-Яга́ (Bába-Jagá).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˌbaba ʝaˈɡa/ [ˌba.β̞a ʝaˈɣ̞a]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˌbaba ʝaˈɡa/ [ˌba.β̞a ʝaˈɣ̞a]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˌbaba ʃaˈɡa/ [ˌba.β̞a ʃaˈɣ̞a]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˌbaba ʒaˈɡa/ [ˌba.β̞a ʒaˈɣ̞a]

• Syllabification: Ba‧ba Ya‧ga

Proper noun

Baba Yaga f

1. (Slavic mythology) Baba Yaga