Baba Yaga in Hindi — Meaning of बाबा यागा (bābā yāgā)

📖 Meaning of “Baba Yaga”

The meaning of “Baba Yaga” in Hindi is बाबा यागा, pronounced bābā yāgā . Copy the Devanagari word above, hear how it is pronounced, and use it anywhere. To type words like this yourself, try our Hindi typing tool, or explore more words in the vocabulary sets.

📘 Definition of Baba Yaga

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.

✍️ Baba Yaga in a sentence

[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.

🌱 Word Origin (Etymology)

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

Quick facts about “Baba Yaga”

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Word (English)

Baba Yaga

Meaning in Hindi

बाबा यागा

Pronunciation

bābā yāgā

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Frequently Asked Questions

The Hindi meaning of "Baba Yaga" is बाबा यागा (bābā yāgā).

In Devanagari script it is written as बाबा यागा.

It is pronounced "bābā yāgā". Tap the speaker icon on this page to hear it aloud.

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