False Friends of the Slavist/Map babka

*babka

Meanings:

yellow shading ‘midwife’
red stripes ‘woman’
blue circles ‘grandmother’
blue stripes ‘pejorative of a woman’
green stripes ‘plantain’
brown stripes ‘bowl cake’
grey dots ‘dragonfly’
 
white shading no such word

(For areas without shading there is no information yet.)

*babka
Meanings
midwife woman grandmother pejorative of a woman plantain bowl cake dragonfly
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Pol. babka
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LSo. babka
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Cz. babička
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Sln. babica
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Bg. бабка
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