kalach

See also: kałach

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kalach (food)

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Alternative forms

kalatch, kolach

Etymology

Transliteration of Russian кала́ч (kaláč) or Ukrainian кала́ч (kaláč), also spelled кола́ч (koláč).

Noun

kalach (plural kalaches or kalachs or kalachi)

Traditional East Slavic bread shaped like a padlock or various kinds of wheels. Other Slavic nations have similar but not identical types of pastry, e.g. Czech or Slovak koláč/koláč, Polish kołacz, Bulgarian колач (kolač), Serbo-Croatian колач/kolač, etc.
- 1892, Vladimir Korolenko, anonymous translator, “Bad Company”, in Antony Lambton, compiler, Bad Company and Other Stories, London; Melbourne, Vic.; New York, N.Y.: Quartet Books, published 1986, →ISBN, chapter II (Queer People), page 20:
  [H]e used to roam about the town with his hands in his pockets, doing nothing, and casting looks at the stalls of the old women who sold kalachs which made them tremble.
  Originally “kaláchs”.
- 1967, Ira J. Morris, chapter III, in The Troika Belle, London: William Heinemann Ltd, page 16:
  Her ladyship was reduced to the pitiable choice of yesterday’s croissants or one of the nine different kinds of rolls, milk breads, sweet breads, scones, pancakes, vatrushki, kalachi, ponchiki, rogaliki and bulochki whose delicious, new-baked smell was wafting all over the house.
- 1984, Vladimir Volkoff, translated by Alan Sheridan, “A Day in the Life of Aleksandr Dmitrich”, in The Set-Up, London: Methuen London Ltd, published 1985, →ISBN, page 137:
  He came back several times with small loaves of various shapes, kalachs, bubliks, pots of jam, honey and molasses, and cold sausage; […]
- 2018, Grunia Slutzky-Kohn, translated by the David Azrieli Foundation, “The Festival”, in Memories of War, Montreal, Que., →OCLC, page 89:
  We asked the canteen to lend us a knife for a minute, I cut up all the kalachs and the babkas into thirty-three parts.

Translations

traditional East Slavic bread (or its equivalent)

Belarusian: кала́ч m (kaláč)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 卡拉奇 (zh) (kǎlāqí)
Crimean Tatar: qalaç
Czech: koláč (cs) m
Finnish: kalatši
French: kalatch (fr) m
Gagauz: kolaç
German: Kalatsch m
Japanese: カラーチ (karāchi)
Nogai: калаш (kalaş)
Polish: kołacz (pl) m
Russian: кала́ч (ru) m (kaláč), кола́ч (ru) m (koláč) (less common)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: колач m

Roman: kolač (sh) m
Slovak: koláč (sk) m
Ukrainian: кала́ч m (kaláč), кола́ч (uk) m (koláč)
Vietnamese: bánh ca-lát
Vilamovian: płoc m
Yakut: халаачык (qalaacık)
Yiddish: קוילעטש m (koyletsh)