babica

See also: babicą, băbica, and băbică

Old Polish

Etymology

From baba +‎ -ica. First attested in 1472. Compare Polish babica and Silesian babica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /babit͡sa/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /babit͡sa/

Noun

babica f

1. willow (any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix)

   Hyponym: wierzba

   • 1900 [1472], Józef Rostafiński, editor, Symbola ad historiam naturalem medii aevi = Średniowieczna historya naturalna w Polsce. Ps 2‎^[1], number 246:

     Babicza salix

     [Babica salix]

References

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “babica”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Etymology

From baba +‎ -ica. Compare Old Polish babica and Silesian babica. First attested in 1600–1750.

Pronunciation

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /baˈbi.t͡sa/

Noun

babica f

1. (Middle Polish) type of hydrotechnical device

Declension

Attested forms of *babica

	singular	plural
nominative	—	babice
genitive	—	—
dative	—	—
accusative	—	—
instrumental	babicą	—
locative	—	—
vocative	—	—

Further reading

• Paweł Kupiszewski (15.01.2021) “BABICA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “babica”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 78

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From bȁba +‎ -ica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bâbit͡sa/
• Hyphenation: ba‧bi‧ca
• Rhymes: -it͡sa

Noun

bȁbica f (Cyrillic spelling ба̏бица)

1. midwife
2. (obsolete) wet nurse
3. nanny
4. (term of endearment) grandmother

Declension

Declension of babica

	singular	plural
nominative	babica	babice
genitive	babice	babica
dative	babici	babicama
accusative	babicu	babice
vocative	babice	babice
locative	babici	babicama
instrumental	babicom	babicama

References

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

Silesian

Etymology

From baba +‎ -ica. Compare Old Polish babica and Polish babica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈbi.t͡sa/
• Rhymes: -it͡sa
• Syllabification: ba‧bi‧ca

Noun

babica f

1. village midwife

   Synonym: babka

Further reading

• Bogdan Kallus (2020) “babica”, in Słownik Gōrnoślōnskij Gŏdki, IV edition, Chorzów: Pro Loquela Silesiana, →ISBN, page 234
• Aleksandra Wencel (2023) “babica”, in Dykcjůnôrz ślų̊sko-polski, page 32

Slovene

Etymology

From bába +‎ -ica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bàːbit͡sa/

Noun

bábica f

1. midwife
2. grandmother

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	bábica
gen. sing.	bábice
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	bábica	bábici	bábice
genitive (rodȋlnik)	bábice	bábic	bábic
dative (dajȃlnik)	bábici	bábicama	bábicam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	bábico	bábici	bábice
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	bábici	bábicah	bábicah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	bábico	bábicama	bábicami

Derived terms

• prȃbábica

Further reading

• “babica”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024