kiełbasa

kiełbasa

1. Alternative form of kielbasa
   • 1978, The Chronicle, page 42, column 2:

     Polish music, the Polish language, a display of photographs from the President’s trip to Poland and, of course, an array of Polish foods such as: kiełbasa, pierogi, […]

   • 1979, Maria Lemnis, Henryk Vitry [double pen name; Tadeusz Żakiej], Old Polish Traditions in the Kitchen and at the Table, Warsaw: Interpress Publishers, →ISBN, page 273:

     Bring the sauce to a boil and into it place the kiełbasa, cut into pieces diagonally. The kiełbasa may also be served in a spicily seasoned onion or tomato sauce.

   • 1979, Paul Wrobel, Our Way: Family, Parish, and Neighborhood in a Polish-American Community, Notre Dame, Ind., London: University of Notre Dame Press, →ISBN, page 48:

     The food is good and inexpensive, and includes daily specials like kiełbasa, pierogi, and gołąbki.

   • 1991, Joseph Alecks, quotee, Polish Digest, page 23, column 3:

     What would be a typical Polish meal? Around these parts Polish people say it is gołąbki, pierogi and kiełbasa.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kъlbasa, which may derive from Proto-Turkic for "grilled cutlet," literally "pressed on ashes," from *kül (“ash”) + *bas (“to press”) (modern Turkish basmak).[1]

• IPA^(key): /kjɛwˈba.sa/

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• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: kieł‧ba‧sa
• Homophone: Kiełbasa

kiełbasa f (diminutive kiełbaska, augmentative kiełbacha)

1. sausage (for slicing), kielbasa, Polish sausage

• → English: kielbasa
• → French: kielbasa
• → Old Ruthenian: келбаса́ (kelbasá), килбаса́ (kilbasá)
  • Belarusian: кілбаса́ (kilbasá)

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “kiełbasa”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN

• kiełbasa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kiełbasa in Polish dictionaries at PWN