Baba Yaga

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *baba ęga (literally hag of terror), probably through Russian Ба́ба-Яга́ (Bába-Jagá).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌbɑːbə ˈjɑːɡə/, enPR: bä'bə yäʹgə
  • Rhymes: -ɑːɡə
  • Hyphenation: Ba‧ba Ya‧ga

Proper noun

Baba Yaga

  1. (Slavic mythology) In Russian, Finno-Ugric, Polish and Bulgarian tales, a character who lives in a hut standing on chicken legs and who flies through the air in a mortar, using the pestle as a rudder.
    • 2020, Ben Creed, City of Ghosts, London: Welbeck Publishing, →ISBN, page 143:
      [L]ooking like the hut, minus the fat chicken legs, of Baba Yaga, the old witch with iron teeth and an appetite for a human supper.

Translations

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *baba ęga (literally hag of terror), probably through Russian Ба́ба-Яга́ (Bába-Jagá).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈba.bɐ ˈja.ɡɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈba.ba ˈja.ɡa/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈba.bɐ ˈja.ɡɐ/ [ˈba.βɐ ˈja.ɣɐ]

  • Rhymes: -aɡɐ

Proper noun

a Baba Yaga f

  1. (Slavic mythology) Baba Yaga

Spanish

Alternative forms

  • Baba Yagá

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *baba ęga (literally hag of terror), probably through Russian Ба́ба-Яга́ (Bába-Jagá).

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /ˌbaba ʝaˈɡa/ [ˌba.β̞a ʝaˈɣ̞a] (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay)
  • IPA(key): /ˌbaba ʃaˈɡa/ [ˌba.β̞a ʃaˈɣ̞a] (Buenos Aires and environs)
  • IPA(key): /ˌbaba ʒaˈɡa/ [ˌba.β̞a ʒaˈɣ̞a] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

  • Syllabification: Ba‧ba Ya‧ga

Proper noun

Baba Yaga f

  1. (Slavic mythology) Baba Yaga