Where the Romanian word “babă” comes from
From a neighbouring Slavic language.
- DEX ’98 says
Din bg., scr., ucr. baba.
→ Neighbouring Slavic languages · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Old Slavic (a different language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Old Church Slavonic баба ← Proto-Slavic baba
- In film dialogue
- 12 times per million words · number 3,610 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 20 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 61 105 105 65 17 - Swap in a synonym
- mamă (Inherited Latin), soție (Made in Romanian), bătrân (Inherited Latin), bunică (Made in Romanian), mătușă (Inherited Latin), burtă (Unknown origin), moașă (Unknown origin)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
More words from the same layer
da, școală, grijă, păstra, poliție, rus, obicei, ciudat, ba, grozav, ofițer, graniță