Talk:Babushka

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Babush'ka)

Ba'bushka = headscarf)))) Babushka it is grandmother or old woman - right, not headscarf. Headscarf it's "платок" [platok]. "Babouchka"))) it's sound like "ба'бочка" [babochka] - butterfly. Matryoshka = "Babushka doll" omg, it's very fun, thanks))) (russian 94.45.164.191 (talk) 22:36, 20 December 2011 (UTC))[reply]

Perhaps this disambiguation page should link to the one for Ivo Babuška, the famous Czech-American mathematician. I'm not sure how "auto-generated" disambiguation pages are. (Hardmath (talk) 16:44, 31 March 2012 (UTC))[reply]

Ignorance

There are a number of ignorant people on this page who refer to babushka as a headscarf or doll. These are inaccurate understandings of the Russian language. The use of these terms is out of ignorance and perpetuates incorrect knowledge of language. No one anywhere is Russian or similar Slavic cultures uses the wording as such. Any other understandings are a misrepresentation by people who don’t understand the language. 75.86.83.146 (talk) 14:51, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This page is not in Russian, it is in English, and in English this term is used in this manner. It is very common for terms to acquire other meanings when adapted to other languages. Its meaning in Russian is irrelevant here. 90.164.111.35 (talk) 19:05, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The dolls are not commonly referred to by this term anywhere. Matryoshka dolls or Russian nesting dolls but never, ever this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:182:C80:3E10:6F10:B3FA:123B:CD78 (talk) 23:28, 19 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]