Baba Yaga

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Baba Yaga (by Viktor Vasnetsov)

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *baba (“grandmother”), and Yaga, a probable diminutive of Jadwiga, probably through Russian Ба́ба-Яга́ (Bába-Jagá).

Baba Yaga

(Slavic mythology) In Polish, Bulgarian and Russian tales, a hag who lives in a hut that stands on chicken legs and who flies through the air in a mortar, using the pestle as a rudder.

hag who flies through the air in a mortar

Arabic: بَابَا يَاجَا‎‎ f (bābā yāgā), بَابَا يَاجَا‎‎ f (bābā yājā), بَابَا يَاغَا‎‎ f (bābā yāgā), بَابَا يَاغَا‎‎ f (bābā yāḡā)
Armenian: Բաբա Յագա (Baba Yaga)
Azerbaijani: Küpəgirən qarı
Belarusian: Ба́ба-Яга́ (Bába-Jahá)
Bulgarian: Ба́ба Я́га f (Bába Jága)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 芭芭雅嘎 (Bābāyǎgā), 雅加婆婆 (Yǎjiā Pópo), 巴巴亞加, 巴巴亚加 (Bābāyàjiā)
Czech: Ježibaba f, Baba Jaga f, Baba Rohu f
Danish: Baba Yaga
Dutch: Baba Jaga f
Finnish: Baba Jaga
French: Baba Yaga f
Georgian: ბაბა იაგა (baba iaga)
German: Baba Jaga (de) f
Greek: Μπάμπα Γιάγκα f (Bámpa Giágka)
Hebrew: בַּאבָּה יַאגָה‎‎ f (bába-yagá)
Hindi: बाबा यागा f (bābā yāgā)
Hungarian: vasorrú bába, vasfogú bába, baba-jaga
Italian: Baba Yaga f
Japanese: バーバ・ヤーガ (Bāba-Yāga)
Korean: 바바-야가 (babayaga), 바바 야가 (baba yaga)

Latvian: Baba Jaga f
Macedonian: Ба́ба Ро́га f (Bába Róga)
Marathi: बाबा यागा f (bābā yāgā)
Norwegian: Baba Jaga
Persian: بابا یاگا‎‎ (bâbâ yâgâ)
Polish: Baba Jaga (pl) f, Baba-Jaga f, Baba Jędza f, Baba Rogu f
Portuguese: Baba Yaga f
Romanian: Baba Iaga f
Russian: Ба́ба-Яга́ (ru) f (Bába-Jagá), Ба́бка-Ёжка f (Bábka-Jóžka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Баба Јага f, Баба Рога f, Баба Зима f

Roman: Baba Jaga f, Baba Roga f, Baba Zima f
Slovak: Jaga baba f, Ježibaba f
Slovene: Jaga baba f
Spanish: Baba Yaga f
Swedish: Baba-Jaga
Turkish: Baba Yaga, Yek, Yeg, Yiğ
Ukrainian: Ба́ба-Яга́ f (Bába-Jahá)
Urdu: بابا یاگا‎‎ f (bābā yāgā)
Vietnamese: Baba-Yaga
Yakut: Дьэгэ-Бааба (Cege-Baaba)

Baba Yaga f

Baba Yaga f

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