Meaning

1 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)A Central and Eastern European coffee cake flavored with orange rind, rum, almonds, and raisins; or with some single flavoring, such as chocolate or lemon.

    ба́баbába

    a coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds

Examples

3 sentences

  1. The babka is on its way.

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  2. I'm making a chocolate babka.

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  3. I like babka.

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Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
coffee cake:

Origin

From a Slavic language likely via Yiddish באַבקע (babke). Compare baba (“rum soaked cake”)

From a Slavic language likely via Yiddish באַבקע (babke). Compare baba (“rum soaked cake”).

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Forms

plural: babkas
Singularbabka
Pluralbabkas

regular

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
babbleC2babebabelbabyA1

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