diff --git a/dev-python/babel/Manifest b/dev-python/babel/Manifest
index 2516de2e668a4..3de743939d463 100644
--- a/dev-python/babel/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/babel/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 DIST babel-2.16.0.tar.gz 9348104 BLAKE2B e8b674312140dca805b3faf4531493d613b663d4a04aa42a86438d49dd547b598eec9e3c3ca79d715d1c1589f7d416073fcf7e58df468e7c449fa05c70e7b776 SHA512 c80b52cd38eb2fb34b1d19ef3b6c50c16b129a4137d42eba900e3f77e81a5ad03ca319aa37dbdfd3bb7cbe31adbfa6007413962c348912dc9dca09d55fa4438b
+DIST babel-2.17.0.tar.gz 9951852 BLAKE2B 619cf4163c99bbfc5bbadf2e2ccfca277752f4b5ac97fd5b9fcaf29a11493e625f07bf9a3c4e060eefb2308921597f0556fcce8d688c6aefee29b29f1003e1dd SHA512 978ca79e9ce95ecfcfc8e3c6fe1b9b273088cc166490e64edd59c71f6793472d987ea982a67e8cf9d840b8e25f602639ad45e3a35c1482d39cbf09e0c21071ae
 DIST cldr-common-45.0.zip 31812363 BLAKE2B 031d08f2db4a6c75585488faf43196a912e348edc9ff582e9c507c8f1c8ae2cf7c86aaa8265a8fa60540c2b3f4844d0aa01dad516344195bd4d40926d65a48fc SHA512 638123882bd29911fc9492ec152926572fec48eb6c1f5dd706aee3e59cad8be4963a334bb7a09a645dbedc3356f60ef7ac2ef7ab4ccf2c8926b547782175603c
+DIST cldr-common-46.0.zip 34181233 BLAKE2B c54942576dc779ef07d62b791f67a9ca71f3ae4f6833cd3ce44b54ad94ec4a7e3b114f0d611fddf1f7238582180a1e701886f047c76d28070d1f2cfa74020d9d SHA512 316d644b79a4976d4da57d59ca57c689b339908fe61bb49110bfe1a9269c94144cb27322a0ea080398e6dc4c54a16752fd1ca837e14c054b3a6806b1ef9d3ec3
diff --git a/dev-python/babel/babel-2.17.0.ebuild b/dev-python/babel/babel-2.17.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..db07f2bd83380
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/babel/babel-2.17.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( pypy3 python3_{10..13} )
+PYTHON_REQ_USE="threads(+)"
+
+inherit distutils-r1 pypi
+
+# see scripts/download_import_cldr.py
+CLDR_PV=46.0
+DESCRIPTION="Collection of tools for internationalizing Python applications"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://babel.pocoo.org/
+	https://pypi.org/project/babel/
+	https://github.com/python-babel/babel/
+"
+SRC_URI+="
+	https://unicode.org/Public/cldr/${CLDR_PV%.*}/cldr-common-${CLDR_PV}.zip
+"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~x64-macos"
+
+# RDEPEND in BDEPEND for import_cldr.py usage, bug #852158
+BDEPEND="
+	app-arch/unzip
+	${RDEPEND}
+	test? (
+		dev-python/freezegun[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+distutils_enable_sphinx docs
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+src_prepare() {
+	rm babel/locale-data/*.dat || die
+	rm babel/global.dat || die
+	distutils-r1_src_prepare
+}
+
+python_configure() {
+	if [[ ! -f babel/global.dat ]]; then
+		"${EPYTHON}" scripts/import_cldr.py "${WORKDIR}"/common || die
+	fi
+}
+
+python_test() {
+	local -x TZ=UTC
+	epytest
+}