babica

See also: babicą and băbică

Old Polish

Etymology

From baba + -ica. First attested in 1472.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /babit͡sa/
  • IPA(key): (15th 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, number 246:
      Babicza salix
      [Babica salix]

References

Polish

Etymology

From baba + -ica, probably not inherited from Old Polish babica. First attested in 1600–1750.

Pronunciation

Noun

babica f

  1. (Middle Polish) type of hydrotechnical device

Declension

Further reading

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

References

  • babica” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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

Further reading

  • babica”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
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