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Meanings of babka in English

Russian
баба
Spanish
babka
Catalan
babka
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Eastern European sweet yeast cake in the form of a tall cylinder, sometimes with corrugations resembling a skirt’s pleats (hence the name, which means “grandmother”)

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      Usage of babka in English
      1
      Needless to say, we ate a lot of chocolate babka.
      The Storyteller
      2
      Roast potatoes and briskets, pierogi, babka.
      The Storyteller
      3
      You bet your babka I am.
      Love, life and linguine
      4
      Some sweet-toothed shoppers inquired about black-and-white iced cookies and chocolate babka, a loaf dessert akin to a flaky pound-cake.
      The Guardian
      5
      I've got some nice babka.
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      6
      "My father," she says, "used to send messages to my mother through babka."
      The Storyteller
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      Translations for babka
      Spanish
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      Catalan
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      Babka through the time