plural of baba

A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup. / (especially among people of East European ancestry) A grandmother.

plural of rum baba

plural of Ali Baba

plural of ali baba

The fictional protagonist of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, famous for his encounter with forty thieves and their treasure trove cave that opens on the command "open sesame".

(slang) An extremely lucky person, especially one who acquires a large fortune by luck or by chance. / (slang, ethnic slur, US, military) An Iraqi.

Alternative spelling of baba ganoush

A Middle Eastern (originally Lebanese) dish made from a purée of roasted aubergine (eggplant), garlic, and tahini, often eaten as a dip with bread.

(Slavic mythology) In Russian, Finno-Ugric, Polish and Bulgarian tales, a hag who lives in a hut standing on chicken legs and who flies through the air in a mortar, using the pestle as a rudder. She behaves ambivalently and may be either amiable or hostile.