kiełbasa

See also: kielbasa, Kielbasa, kiełbasą, Kiełbasa, and Kiełbasą

English

Noun

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.

Polish

kiełbasy

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kjɛwˈba.sa/

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

Noun

kiełbasa f (diminutive kiełbaska, augmentative kiełbacha)

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

Declension

Declension of kiełbasa

	singular	plural
nominative	kiełbasa	kiełbasy
genitive	kiełbasy	kiełbas
dative	kiełbasie	kiełbasom
accusative	kiełbasę	kiełbasy
instrumental	kiełbasą	kiełbasami
locative	kiełbasie	kiełbasach
vocative	kiełbaso	kiełbasy

Derived terms

• kiełbasa wyborcza

 

Descendants

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

References

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

Further reading

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