#babita

• Mallow — A regional popular name used in certain areas for herbaceous plants of the Malvaceae family (such as the marshmallow plant or mallow), recognized for their large, beautifully colored flowers and emollient properties utilized in traditional medicine. The term has been preserved in isolation within the Carpathian rural vocabulary.
• Pelican — A popular or regional name given to the pelican (Pelecanus), a large aquatic bird with a long beak equipped with a membranous pouch; the term is also used regionally as a diminutive for an old woman (elderly woman) or to designate various infantile ailments or an edible mushroom.
• Midwived — Having been delivered or cared for at birth by a traditional village midwife (băbiță); in a figurative or dialectal sense, it can describe someone who is pampered, coddled, or habituated to old-fashioned, elder-like customs. The term originates from archaic rural life, describing the ritualistic or practical action performed by the elderly woman assisting childbirth.
• Pelicans — The unarticulated plural form of the feminine noun 'babiță'; it designates multiple pelicans or, in a regional sense, multiple elderly women or multiple instances of childhood ailments described in folk medicine.