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• Angelica — A regional or archaic folk variant for 'angelică' (garden angelica) or 'angelină', denoting a robust herbaceous plant in the umbellifer family, historically prized in Romanian villages for its outstanding medicinal and aromatic properties. Its roots and fleshy stems are utilized in traditional phytotherapy as a digestive tonic, stomachic, and antispasmodic, popularly recognized under the metaphorical name of angel herb.
• Old woman — A word with multiple semantic meanings; in its most common usage, it designates an elderly woman or grandmother, often loaded with mystical-archaic folkloric connotations (such as the March Babes in Romanian mythology). In a technical or industrial sense, it represents a heavy metal or wooden bitt mounted on a ship's deck or dock for securing mooring lines, or a support structural piece in drilling rigs. It can also refer to a traditional pastry baked in special molds.
• Baba-Dochia — A central figure of Romanian mythology, symbolically personifying the dying old year, harsh winter, and the rebirth of spring. The legend depicts her as an authoritarian stepmother who subjects her daughter-in-law to impossible tasks (such as washing black wool until it turns white); deceived by an early spell of warm weather, she climbs the mountain with her sheep, shedding her 9 or 12 sheepskin coats one by one, ultimately freezing to death and turning into stone alongside her flock, inspiring the myth of the 'Old Women Days' in early March.
• Babalear — A rare regional term used in certain rural dialects to designate a traditional folk dance or a festive street carnival gathering, specific to winter holidays or spring rituals. In these folkloric events, participants wear grotesque anthropomorphic masks (usually mocking the village elders) and perform jerky, jumping, rhythmic movements meant to symbolically drive away evil spirits, cold weather, and winter.
• Babeine — A toxic organic substance of an alkaloidal nature, experimentally extracted or isolated from certain plant species of spontaneous flora or from complex organic compounds; a structural compound studied in toxicology and organic chemistry for its specific pharmacological properties or its reactions in the presence of certain laboratory reagents.
• Male gossip — A pejorative, ironic, or slang term used to designate a man who likes to spend his time in the company of elderly women, who courts old women (often for financial gain) or, by extension, a man who acts like an old woman, being prone to gossip, useless complaints, and petty talk.
• Babel — The biblical name of the city of Babylon, famous for the Tower of Babel, a monumental building erected by humans to reach heaven, an act of pride punished by God by confounding their languages; by extension, the term denotes a place where total confusion reigns, a chaotic mix of languages, peoples, or conflicting opinions where nobody understands anyone.
• The Old Women Days — The articulated plural of the noun 'babă'; in Romanian popular tradition, the term designates the first days of March (usually from March 1st to 9th), associated with the myth of Baba Dochia, characterized by highly unpredictable and capricious weather, used in rural divinatory practices to forecast a person's character or luck for that year.
• Babelic — Pertaining to the Tower of Babel or Babylon; by extension, characterized by utter confusion, a chaotic mixture of languages, deafening noise, or profound misunderstanding among people; tumultuous, chaotic, or disorderly.
• Babelon — A proper name of French origin, renowned due to illustrious scholars such as Ernest Babelon (1854–1924), a famous numismatist and archaeologist, specialist in antiquity, or his son Jean Babelon, also a historian; the term serves as an academic eponym in the study of ancient coins and glyptics.
• Old woman — A regional term used in some areas to designate a very old woman, bent or weakened by age; in popular botanical terms, it represents the alternative name for certain medicinal plants or wild mushrooms with an irregular shape; it can also describe an old, degraded object or a rudimentary household tool.
• Babes — A Romanian proper name, globally renowned due to Victor Babeș (1854–1926), a famous physician, bacteriologist, and morphopathologist, member of the Romanian Academy and co-author of the world's first treatise on bacteriology; eponym for the parasite genus 'Babesia', the disease 'babesiosis', and the 'Babeș-Negri' corpuscles, his name being honored by the University in Cluj-Napoca (Babeș-Bolyai).
• Old-fashioned — Pertaining to old women, specific to them, or originating from them; characteristic of traditional rural mentalities. In current usage, the term usually qualifies empirical remedies, beliefs, or household customs transmitted orally in rural environments, which do not rely on rigorous scientific or medical arguments but form an integral part of folklore.
• Bib — A bib; a small piece of cloth, waterproof material, or plastic tied under a young child's chin to protect their clothes from getting dirty during meals; in a technical sense, a metallic fixing piece or a special gasket used in installations for sealing purposes.
• Bibs — The unarticulated plural form of the feminine noun 'babetă'; it designates multiple pieces of cloth or plastic intended to protect children's clothes during meals or, in technical language, multiple fixing and sealing pieces used in engineering.
• Small bib — An affectionate diminutive form of babetă; a small piece of cloth, cotton, or waterproof plastic tied or fastened around a baby's or toddler's neck to protect their clothing from saliva or food stains during feeding.
• Babeuf — The surname of François-Noël Babeuf (1760–1797), also known by his pseudonym Gracchus Babeuf, a French revolutionary, journalist, and political theorist during the French Revolution. He was a radical precursor of communism and utopian socialism, organizing the 'Conspiracy of the Equals' (Conspiracy of Equals), a movement through which he advocated for the abolition of private property and the establishment of full economic equality.
• Buttermilk — Buttermilk; the liquid remaining after milk or cream has been churned to make butter, characterized by a slightly sour taste and low fat content, widely used in baking and traditional European gastronomy.
• Babesia — Babesia; a genus of parasitic protozoans transmitted by ticks that infect and destroy red blood cells in mammals, including humans, causing a severe condition known as babesiosis characterized by hemolytic anemia and high fever.
• Babylon — A place, environment, or situation characterized by utter confusion, deep disorder, a chaotic mixture of people, languages, opinions, or different cultures, where effective communication becomes impossible; a noisy and tumultuous urban crowd that symbolically evokes biblical disorder.