babka
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- noun
- /ˈbɑːbkə/
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babka
- If you visit a bakery in Poland, you must try their traditional babka made with raisins and nuts.
- chocolate babka
- cinnamon babka
Examples
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I've got some hot chocolate and Polish babka.
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The bakery floor, and even the walls, are scuffed and dirty; the glass cases are empty except for a few babkas on curled wax paper.
Fiction book (1999) -
I'll have the chocolate babka.
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They're going in first with the last babka.
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You can't beat a babka!
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They got the last babka.
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I'll have a cinnamon babka.
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That's the last babka.
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When Jeanette leaned closer, trying to pick out a fresh chocolate babka, she swore she heard the word "Memphis."
Fiction book (2000) -
I've got some hot chocolate and a delicious babka for dessert.
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Etymology
The word babka comes from a Slavic word baba, which means 'grandmother'. That's why you can remember a babka as a 'grandmother's cake' — a sweet, yeast cake that families in Eastern Europe often bake for holidays and special meals.