The Russian peasant (male) was colloquially called a krestyanin (), the female form of this word is krestyanka (), plural - krestyane (). Some arrogate this meaning to the word muzhik, moujik () (man), and this word was calqued into Western languages through translations of Russian literature of 19th century, that described Russian rural life of that times, and where really the word "muzhik" referred to the most common rural dweller - a peasant, but that was only a narrow contextual meaning of the word. Muzhik is plain traditional word that means just "man" (mature male human), and in more civil language it can mean "plain man". The female equivalent word is baba ().