The Russian word for grandmother is
бабушка
babushka
Russian Definition
| grandmother | |
| 1. бабушка | |
| | |
| 2. женщина-предок |
Translations for grandmother and their definitions
| баба | ||
| 1. n. (disdainful) woman, countrywoman | ||
| Все ба́бы — ду́ры; все мужики́ — сво́лочи — Every woman is stupid, every man a bastard (Russian folklore) | ||
| 2. n. grandma, granny (short for бабушка) | ||
| Ма́ма, а где ба́ба? — Mom, where’s grandma? | ||
| 3. n. (informal or archaic) old woman (short for бабушка) | ||
| Жи́ли-бы́ли дед да ба́ба — There once lived an old man and his old woman. | ||
| 4. n. woman, female, broad | ||
| Кто э́та ба́ба? — Who's that broad? | ||
| 5. n. peasant’s wife, peasant woman | ||
| 6. n. (weak man) milksop, old woman | ||
| 7. n. (technical) ram (of pile driver) | ||
| 8. n. (technical) drop weight | ||
| 9. n. baba (tall, cylindrical cake), bundt cake, gugelhupf | ||
| ро́мовая ба́ба — rum baba, rum cake | ||
| сне́жная ба́ба — snowman | ||
| ка́менная ба́ба — primitive stone statue | ||
| бабушка |  | ||
| 1. n. grandmother, grandma, granny | |||
| расскажи́ э́то свое́й ба́бушке — tell it to Sweeney, tell it to the marines | |||
| 2. n. old lady | |||
| 3. n. strong, outspoken or opinionated woman | |||
| бабуля | ||
| 1. n. (colloquial) granny (grandmother) | ||
| 2. n. (colloquial) granny (old lady) | ||
| бабуся | ||
| 1. n. granny, grandma | ||
| бабка | ||
| 1. n. old woman, crone | ||
| 2. n. grandmother | ||
| 3. n. midwife | ||
| 4. n. (technical) mandrel | ||
| 5. n. pastern | ||
| 6. n. knucklebones | ||
| 7. n. money | ||
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