Meaning of babulia | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of babulya.

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Examples

“Efrosinya Gadzhieva has been coming to Gorky Park since Stalin’s time. ‘In those days the flowers were tended,’ she muses, her gold teeth glistening in the sun. ‘Now it’s just arcades and noise. Then you could buy sandwiches with caviar, not all these strange kebabs.’ But Babulia (granny), as the locals call her, is not one to complain. Since 1976, she has been operating the weighing scales from her spot near the shooting range.”

“Even those who, out of love for the vine, are still growing their own grapes are far from sure they are doing the right thing, said Babulia Otiashvili, 55, a grandmother harvesting in giant wicker baskets the last of the grapes on her two-acre private plot.”

“To be sure, people of all ages were on Maidan, and the grandmothers, the babulias, were out there in full force.”

“Nadia’s grandmother is that extremely rare thing in Chekhov’s work, an almost entirely negative character. This is brought out in his opening description of her, which emphasises her physical repulsiveness: ‘Grandmother, or, as she was called at home “babulia”, was very fat, ugly, with thick eye-brows and a little moustache.[…]’”

“He greeted Faina exuberantly giving her a big hug as he affectionally called her babulia, grandmother.”

“Here at the dacha no one ever pushes and tells me: “Babulia [diminutive for babushka], what are you doing here? Go home and do not bother me!” [laughs] And when I am in Moscow, I am constantly hearing “Babulia, come here. Babulia, come over here. Babulia . . . .””

“Alina is survived by her parents, of Oklahoma City; and her Grandma and Grandpa, of Oklahoma City; and her Diyada and Babulia (Russian grandparents), of Russia, Siberia; by relatives of both parents and grandparents, and by many close friends.”

“There was a Babusia in Maria’s life: in family letters she bore the affectionate nickname for grandmother, babushka. But this Babusia (or Babulia as she’s sometimes called) was not a grandmotherly force for the Balanchivadze children. […] Despite what Balanchine later implied about his mother’s indifference, she stayed mostly for him, though other factors may have influenced her too: her mother (if that’s who the mysterious “Babulia” was), her cousins, the city itself.”

“They could hardly see me behind an enormous bunch of lilacs. My dear cousin Naira, Granny Nadia and Auntie Rita. […] I looked at Babulia Nadia rummaging through the chest that smelled of years.”

““Not Seamus. It was Griffith. He threatened my babulia, my grandmother.” […] “You said he threatened your babulia. Or did you forget? Most people would’ve wanted to make sure grandma was safe before they flew 2,500 miles into the Arctic.””

“After his working day, he would hurry home and quickly eat a dinner prepared by Mama’s grandmother, Babulia. At the kitchen table—eating alone as Mama, Lulu, and Babulia had dinner earlier—he would call Mama over, and whisper “на-ка,” urging his daughter to steal a few dumplings or a piece of buttered bread at his “here you go.””

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