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Meanings of babka cake 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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      баба
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      Examples for "baba"
      Examples for "baba"
      1
      A rum baba with caramelised apples is well made and equally sweet.
      The Guardian
      2
      No drinking and minding the baba when Marion was off to shop.
      The ginger man
      3
      Many in the industry call him 2baba - the daddy of Nigerian hip-hop.
      BBC
      4
      Celebrating the achievements of Jacob Zuma as president Happy birthday baba.
      The South African
      5
      Put the baba aside and brushed feverishly away the thing on his chest.
      A singular man
      1
      Also known as boba tea, it seems as though you can't go anywhere in the world right now without seeing someone clutching the colourful drink.
      News.com.au
      2
      Local Lobala and Boba tribesmen have for months feuded over fishing rights.
      Reuters
      3
      His last image was of Boba Fett watching him turn into carbonite.
      Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
      4
      I have to admit, it makes her look less like Boba Fett.
      Leaving Time
      5
      Enjoys arguing about whether Batman or Boba Fett would win in a fight.
      Wired
      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.
      Seeing stars
      1
      The telegram said that Bobka had been very ill with pneumonia but was now out of danger.
      The new yorker
      2
      She had died a few moments earlier when she had received a telegram about her son, Bobka, who was in America.
      The new yorker
      Translations for babka cake
      Spanish
      babka
      Catalan
      babka