goulash

English

Goulash prepared in a traditional bogrács (“cauldron”).

Alternative forms

• gulyas, gulasch, goulasch, gulash

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian gul(y)ás, short for gulyás hús (“beef or lamb soup made by herdsmen while pasturing”), from gulyás (“herdsman”) +‎ hús (“meat”). First attested in English 1866.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡuː.læʃ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡuː.lɑːʃ/
• Rhymes: -æʃ

Noun

goulash (countable and uncountable, plural goulashes)

2. A stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika.
3. (bridge) A style of play in which the cards are not thoroughly shuffled between consecutive deals, so as to make the suits less evenly distributed between the players.
4. A hodgepodge, mishmash
   • 1978 February 4, Eric Rogers, “Men And Child Care”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 30, page 9:

     While people do not flaunt their preferences, there is also no attempt to hide the facts. One man, who had worked with the collective for three months, could not divide the group by sexuality. "It seems like a goulash of gays, straights, bi's but you can't tell who's who, or what's what."

Derived terms

• American goulash
• goulash communism

Translations

a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream

• Armenian: գուլյաշ (hy) (gulyaš)
• Belarusian: гуля́ш m (huljáš)
• Bulgarian: гула̀ш m (gulàš)
• Carpathian Rusyn: ґу́ляш m (gúljaš)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 匈牙利湯 / 匈牙利汤 (Xiōngyálì tāng)

• Czech: guláš (cs) m
• Danish: gullasch c
• Dutch: goulash (nl) m, goelasj m
• Faroese: gullasj n
• Finnish: gulassi (fi)
• French: goulash (fr) m, goulache (fr) m (1990 reform spelling)
• Georgian: გულიაში (guliaši)
• German: Gulasch (de) n
• Hungarian: paprikás pörkölt (distinct from gulyás)
• Icelandic: gúllas (is)
• Ido: gulyasho (io)
• Irish: gúláis f
• Italian: gulasch (it) m, stufato (it) m
• Japanese: グヤーシュ (guyāshu), グーラーシュ (gūrāshu)
• Korean: 구야시 (ko) (guyasi)
• Lithuanian: guliašas
• Macedonian: гулаш m (gulaš)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gulasj m

  Nynorsk: gulasj m

• Polish: gulasz (pl) m
• Portuguese: goulash (pt) m, gulache (pt) m, gulyás m
• Russian: гуля́ш (ru) m (guljáš)
• Serbo-Croatian: gulaš (sh) m
• Slovak: guláš (sk) m, guľáš m
• Slovene: golaž m
• Spanish: gulasch m, goulash (es) m
• Swedish: gulasch (sv)
• Turkish: gulaş (tr)
• Ukrainian: гуля́ш (uk) m (huljáš)
• Welsh: gwlash m
• Yiddish: גולאַש m (gulash)

a style of bridge play

• Japanese: グラッシュ (gurasshu)

Dutch

Alternative forms

• goelasj

Etymology

From German Gulasch, from Hungarian gulyás.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡulɑʃ/, /ˈɣulɑʃ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: gou‧lash

Noun

goulash m (plural goulashes, diminutive goulashje n)

1. goulash

Derived terms

• goulashcommunisme

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• gulache, gulyás

Noun

goulash m (uncountable)

1. goulash (a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream)