Word.ws English Dictionary

Baba Jaga

Baba Jaga is the alternative spelling of Baba Yaga.

Meaning of Baba Yaga

Proper noun

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.
    • [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.2020, Ben Creed, City of Ghosts, London: Welbeck Publishing, →ISBN, page 143

Words that rhyme with Baba Jaga

Questions about Baba Jaga

What is Baba Jaga the alternative spelling of?
Baba Jaga is the alternative spelling of Baba Yaga.

Words near Baba Jaga in the dictionary

  1. baba ganoush
  2. baba ghannouj
  3. baba ghanouj
  4. baba ghanoush
  5. Baba Iaga
  6. Baba Jaga
  7. Baba Sheikh
  8. Baba Yaga
  9. Baba-Iaga
  10. bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk
  11. bababooey

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Baba Jaga (page history and authors); Baba Yaga (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Baba Jaga.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/baba_jaga. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.