"babushka" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /bəˈbuːʃ.kə/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-babushka.wav [Southern-England] Forms: babushkas [plural], babushki [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian ба́бушка (bábuška, “grandmother, granny”), diminutive of ба́ба (bába, “old woman”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ru|ба́бушка||grandmother, granny}} Russian ба́бушка (bábuška, “grandmother, granny”), {{m|ru|ба́ба||old woman}} ба́ба (bába, “old woman”) Head templates: {{en-noun|+|babushki}} babushka (plural babushkas or babushki)
  1. An old woman, especially one of Eastern European descent. Categories (topical): Female family members, Headwear Categories (place): Russia
    Sense id: en-babushka-en-noun-moBVQVnD Disambiguation of Female family members: 23 26 2 17 17 15 Disambiguation of Headwear: 14 24 1 12 25 24 Disambiguation of Russia: 26 34 0 10 29 0
  2. An old woman, especially one of Eastern European descent.
    (by association) A stereotypical, Eastern European peasant grandmother-type figure.
    Categories (topical): Female family members, Headwear Categories (place): Russia
    Sense id: en-babushka-en-noun-b74mOGDu Disambiguation of Female family members: 23 26 2 17 17 15 Disambiguation of Headwear: 14 24 1 12 25 24 Disambiguation of Russia: 26 34 0 10 29 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 11 1 10 35 36
  3. A Russian grandmother.
    Sense id: en-babushka-en-noun-DwhfIk4J
  4. (Eastern Europe, derogatory, slang) An old woman of Russian or Belarusian descent with unwelcome conservative and/or Orthodox Christian views. Tags: Eastern, Europe, derogatory, slang Categories (topical): Female family members, Headwear Categories (place): Russia
    Sense id: en-babushka-en-noun-7OAqCSX2 Disambiguation of Female family members: 23 26 2 17 17 15 Disambiguation of Headwear: 14 24 1 12 25 24 Disambiguation of Russia: 26 34 0 10 29 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 11 1 10 35 36
  5. (Northern US) A traditional floral headscarf worn by an Eastern European woman, tied under the chin. Tags: Northern-US Categories (topical): Female family members, Headwear Categories (place): Russia Translations (woman’s headscarf tied under the chin): kopserp (Afrikaans), kopdoek (Afrikaans), kaptuko (Esperanto), ŝalo (Esperanto), kapfulardo (Esperanto), skýla [feminine] (Icelandic), skýluklútur [masculine] (Icelandic), skýlyklútur bundinn undir höku [masculine] (Icelandic), chusta [feminine] (Polish), batic (Romanian), плато́к (platók) [masculine] (Russian), шаль (šalʹ) [feminine] (Russian), косы́нка (kosýnka) [feminine] (Russian), ху́стка (xústka) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-babushka-en-noun-9Ked5tSc Disambiguation of Female family members: 23 26 2 17 17 15 Disambiguation of Headwear: 14 24 1 12 25 24 Disambiguation of Russia: 26 34 0 10 29 0 Categories (other): Northern US English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 11 1 10 35 36 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 4 19 1 20 32 24 Disambiguation of 'woman’s headscarf tied under the chin': 10 10 0 10 65 7
  6. A Russian doll, a matryoshka. Categories (topical): Female family members, Headwear
    Sense id: en-babushka-en-noun-N~yvLES8 Disambiguation of Female family members: 23 26 2 17 17 15 Disambiguation of Headwear: 14 24 1 12 25 24 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 11 1 10 35 36
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: babooshka, baboushka Derived forms: babushkaed Related terms: babusya, bubbe (english: possibly cognate) Coordinate_terms: dedushka Translations (an old woman): baboesjka (Afrikaans), oumatjie (Afrikaans), баба (baba) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 老婆婆 (lǎopópo) (Chinese Mandarin), maljunulino (Esperanto), oldulino (Esperanto), maljuna virino (Esperanto), vanaeit (Estonian), ба́бушка (bábuška) [feminine] (Russian), стару́ха (starúxa) [feminine] (Russian), стару́шка (starúška) [feminine] (Russian), anciana [feminine] (Spanish), viejita [feminine] (Spanish), viejecita [feminine] (Spanish), vieja [feminine] (Spanish), señora mayor [feminine] (Spanish), mujer vieja [feminine] (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'an old woman': 37 37 0 24 1 0

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      "_dis1": "37 37 0 24 1 0",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lǎopópo",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "word": "老婆婆"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "37 37 0 24 1 0",
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "word": "maljunulino"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "37 37 0 24 1 0",
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "word": "oldulino"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "37 37 0 24 1 0",
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "word": "maljuna virino"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "37 37 0 24 1 0",
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "word": "vanaeit"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "37 37 0 24 1 0",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bábuška",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ба́бушка"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "37 37 0 24 1 0",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "starúxa",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "стару́ха"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "37 37 0 24 1 0",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "starúška",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "стару́шка"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "37 37 0 24 1 0",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "anciana"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "37 37 0 24 1 0",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "viejita"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "37 37 0 24 1 0",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "viejecita"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "37 37 0 24 1 0",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vieja"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "37 37 0 24 1 0",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "señora mayor"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "37 37 0 24 1 0",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mujer vieja"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "babushka"
  ],
  "word": "babushka"
}
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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with irregular plurals",
    "English terms borrowed from Russian",
    "English terms derived from Russian",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "en:Female family members",
    "en:Headwear",
    "en:Russia"
  ],
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    {
      "word": "dedushka"
    }
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "babushkaed"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ru",
        "3": "ба́бушка",
        "4": "",
        "5": "grandmother, granny"
      },
      "expansion": "Russian ба́бушка (bábuška, “grandmother, granny”)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ru",
        "2": "ба́ба",
        "3": "",
        "4": "old woman"
      },
      "expansion": "ба́ба (bába, “old woman”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Russian ба́бушка (bábuška, “grandmother, granny”), diminutive of ба́ба (bába, “old woman”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "babushkas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "babushki",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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        "1": "+",
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "babusya"
    },
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      "english": "possibly cognate",
      "word": "bubbe"
    }
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1984, Eugenie Fraser, “Before the Storm”, in The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood, Mainstream Publishing, pages 126–127",
          "text": "Yet, much as I loved to listen to it, standing there in the heat of all the lighted candles and dressed in my heavy shuba and felt boots, I invariably, halfway through the service, would begin to feel an intolerable pain across my shoulders which would spread across my back, gradually getting worse, until in the end I was forced to go to the back of the church and find a corner on a bench especially placed there for all the old babushkas and dedushkas who were also unable to bear the strain of standing throughout the whole service.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "An old woman, especially one of Eastern European descent."
      ],
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        [
          "old woman",
          "old woman"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An old woman, especially one of Eastern European descent.",
        "A stereotypical, Eastern European peasant grandmother-type figure."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "old woman",
          "old woman"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "by association",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "An old woman, especially one of Eastern European descent.",
        "(by association) A stereotypical, Eastern European peasant grandmother-type figure."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1899, Lyof N. Tolstoï, “The Dekabrists: A Romance”, in [unknown], transl., Master and Man; The Kreutzer Sonata; Dramas (The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 231",
          "text": "[…] the old woman wore the same kind of attire as his babushka and the mother of his house did […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, Mike Davidow, Moscow Diary, Moscow: Progress Publishers, page 147",
          "text": "There they were, the devoted babushkas and dedushkas, mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers of Bobby’s companions, lugging their bags, their bulging packages and bundles.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Nalini Singh, Alpha Night (Psy-Changeling Trinity), Berkley, page 205",
          "text": "He and my babushka took an angry and confused teenager and taught her how to build herself up into a strong woman.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Russian grandmother."
      ],
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        [
          "Russian",
          "Russian"
        ],
        [
          "grandmother",
          "grandmother"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English slang"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An old woman of Russian or Belarusian descent with unwelcome conservative and/or Orthodox Christian views."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "Russian",
          "Russian"
        ],
        [
          "Belarusian",
          "Belarusian"
        ],
        [
          "conservative",
          "conservative"
        ],
        [
          "Orthodox",
          "Orthodox"
        ],
        [
          "Christian",
          "Christian"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Eastern Europe, derogatory, slang) An old woman of Russian or Belarusian descent with unwelcome conservative and/or Orthodox Christian views."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Eastern",
        "Europe",
        "derogatory",
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Northern US English",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 78",
          "text": "The crowd falls silent, momentarily stunned, while a heavyset woman in a babushka pushes her way through, broadcasting the news […].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A traditional floral headscarf worn by an Eastern European woman, tied under the chin."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "headscarf",
          "headscarf"
        ],
        [
          "chin",
          "chin"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Northern US) A traditional floral headscarf worn by an Eastern European woman, tied under the chin."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Northern-US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A Russian doll, a matryoshka."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Russian doll",
          "Russian doll"
        ],
        [
          "matryoshka",
          "matryoshka"
        ]
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/bəˈbuːʃ.kə/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
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    },
    {
      "word": "baboushka"
    }
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    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "word": "baboesjka"
    },
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "word": "oumatjie"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "baba",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "баба"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lǎopópo",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "word": "老婆婆"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "word": "maljunulino"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "word": "oldulino"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "word": "maljuna virino"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "word": "vanaeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bábuška",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ба́бушка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "starúxa",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "стару́ха"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "starúška",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "стару́шка"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "anciana"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "viejita"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "viejecita"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vieja"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "señora mayor"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an old woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mujer vieja"
    },
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "woman’s headscarf tied under the chin",
      "word": "kopserp"
    },
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "woman’s headscarf tied under the chin",
      "word": "kopdoek"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "woman’s headscarf tied under the chin",
      "word": "kaptuko"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "woman’s headscarf tied under the chin",
      "word": "ŝalo"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "woman’s headscarf tied under the chin",
      "word": "kapfulardo"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "woman’s headscarf tied under the chin",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "skýla"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "woman’s headscarf tied under the chin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "skýluklútur"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "woman’s headscarf tied under the chin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "skýlyklútur bundinn undir höku"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "woman’s headscarf tied under the chin",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "chusta"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "woman’s headscarf tied under the chin",
      "word": "batic"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "platók",
      "sense": "woman’s headscarf tied under the chin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "плато́к"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "šalʹ",
      "sense": "woman’s headscarf tied under the chin",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "шаль"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kosýnka",
      "sense": "woman’s headscarf tied under the chin",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "косы́нка"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "xústka",
      "sense": "woman’s headscarf tied under the chin",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ху́стка"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "babushka"
  ],
  "word": "babushka"
}

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