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Ladino
Etymology
From Hebrew.
Noun
balabaya f (Latin spelling, plural balabayas)
- mistress of the house
- hostess
Coordinate terms
Further reading
- Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977) “balabáya”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 78
- Elli Kohen & Dahlia Kohen-Gordon (2000) “balabaya”, in Ladino–English Concise Encyclopedic Dictionary, Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, page 58
- Aitor García Moreno, editor (2013–), “báʿalat”, in Diccionario Histórico Judeoespañol (in Spanish), CSIC