Baba Yaga

• Baba Iaga, Baba-Iaga, Baba Jaga

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

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

Baba Yaga or the 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.

   • 2023 April 7, Nick Groke, C. Trent Rosecrans, “Analyzing MLB [Major League Baseball]’s most cumbersome contracts — and trying to find a way out for each team”, in The Athletic‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 August 2025:

     But elbow injuries are the Baba Yaga for pitchers, an ever-present danger.

• Baba Iaga

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

• Rhymes: -aɡɐ

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1. (Slavic mythology) Baba Yaga

• Baba Yagá

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

• Syllabification: Ba‧ba Ya‧ga

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1. (Slavic mythology) Baba Yaga