Bubah

"Bubah" in a Sentence (3 examples)

My bubah was a typical Shetel grandmother[…]

These days, people spell ‘Bubah’ as ‘Bubbe’ and ‘Zaida’ as ‘Zeyde’. They mean ‘Granny’ and ‘Grandad’ in Yiddish.

bubah, or old grandmother;

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