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babka

Pronunciation: /ˈbap.ka/

“babka” is a Polish word. Its 20 meanings in English:

noun

  1. grandmother
  2. woman
  3. medicine woman
  4. babka (type of cake)
  5. sandcastle
  6. plantain (any plant of the genus Plantago)
  7. goby (any of various small fish from the large family Gobiidae)
  8. type of medicinal plant
  9. particular part of a furnace/oven
  10. woman's companion assistant
  11. mound of several sheaves of grain placed in a field
  12. type of edible mushroom
  13. stone closing the entrance to the mine
  14. stone used to close a blast furnace acting as a furnace door
  15. hammer with the same head on both sides
  16. anvil for bending padlock shackles
  17. small anvil used for tapping a scythe
  18. dragonfly
  19. small cannon
  20. type of old, small Polish currency

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish babka. By surface analysis, baba + -ka.

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