babusya

Noun

babusya (plural babusi or babusyas)

1. A Ukrainian grandmother.
   • “Aaaahhhh!” the babusya cried, throwing her arms wide and wrapping them around her granddaughter.[…]“Mary, this is my babusya.”2009, Chuck Holton, Meltdown (Task Force Valor; book three), Multnomah Books, →ISBN, page 254
   • When Father Hryhorii first arrived, the old babusyas, ignorant of the way religious affairs were ordered, thanked God that the church was not sealed up or blown into the air.[…]‘Who are you going to see, sir?’ A babusya, who was sitting near to him on the bus asked, ‘Perhaps your family. I know...2013, Vasyl Baziv, translated by Stephen Komarnyckyj, The Cross, or the Chocolates that Exploded: A Post Biblical Detective Story, Tucson, Ariz.: Anaphora Literary Press, pages 8 and 195