babcia

noun2

1. •
   A Polish grandmother.

   • These cakes are from family recipes, from great-grandmothers and babcias, from kitchens as far apart as Knoxville, Tennessee, and Warsaw, Poland. — 2001
2. •
   A Polish old woman.

   • There are many women in these processions, many of them old babcias with cheeks pink as a young girl’s under their flowered headscarves. — 1964