babaroga

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /babarǒːɡa/

Noun

babaróga m (Cyrillic spelling бабаро́га)

1. bogeyman (fictional monster that scares children), typically in the form of an old hag or witch with a single horn in her forehead
2. bogeyman (make-believe threat)

Further reading

• “babaroga”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024