kielbasa

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

English

Several varieties of kielbasa with mustard.

Alternative forms

• kielbasy, kolbasa, kolbassa, kulbasa (uncommon)
• kielbassi, kolbasi, kolbassi, kolbasy (rare)
• kiełbasa

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish kiełbasa (“sausage”), 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). See the Ukrainian cognate ковбаса́ (kovbasá, “sausage”), whence kubasa, for more information.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kilˈbɑsə/, /kɪ(l)ˈbɑsə/, enPR: kēl-bäʹsə, kĭ(l)-bäʹsə
• (Manitoba, Northwestern Ontario, Saskatchewan) IPA^(key): /ˈkubəsɑ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /kiːlˈbasə/, enPR: kēl-băsʹə

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːsə, -æsə
• Hyphenation: kiel‧ba‧sa

Noun

kielbasa (countable and uncountable, plural kielbasas or kielbasy)

1. A spicy, smoked sausage of a particular kind from Eastern Europe.

   Synonyms: (informal) Polish sausage, (Canada) kubasa

   • 1994 July 21, Faye Fiore, “Congress relishes another franking privilege: Meat lobby puts on the dog with exclusive luncheon for lawmakers – experts on pork”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[1]:

     Congressmen gleefully wolfed down every imaginable version of the hot dog – smoked kielbasas, jumbo grillers, Big & Juicy's, kosher dogs and spiced dogs […]

2. (slang) Penis.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:penis

   • 2020, The Eric Andre Show, season 5, episode 9:

     Eric Andre: Do you think God's got a cooter or a big-ass kielbasa?
     Quincy: He's got it all.
     Eric Andre: That's gross.

Translations

Eastern European sausage

• Belarusian: каўбаса́ f (kaŭbasá)
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 波蘭香腸 / 波兰香肠

• Czech: klobása (cs) f
• French: kielbasa (fr) f, saucisse polonaise f
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: kielbasa
• Japanese: カルパス (karupasu)
• Persian: کالباس (fa) (kâlbâs), (dialectal) کالواس (kâlvâs)
• Plains Cree: otakisihkân
• Polish: kiełbasa (pl) f
• Romanian: cârnat polonez m
• Russian: колбаса́ (ru) f (kolbasá)
• Slovak: klobása f
• Ukrainian: ковбаса́ (uk) f (kovbasá)

References

• “kielbasa”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “kielbasa”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “kielbasa”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “kielbasa”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “kielbasa” in Frederic Gomes Cassidy, Joan Houston Hall (1985), Dictionary of American Regional English, p 212, Harvard University Press, →ISBN.

Further reading

• kielbasa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Alternative forms

• kiełbasa, kielbassa

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish kiełbasa (“sausage”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kjɛw.ba.za/, /kjɛw.ba.sa/
• IPA^(key): /kjɛl.ba.za/, /kjɛl.ba.sa/
• Rhymes: -a

Noun

kielbasa m or f (plural kielbasas)

1. kielbasa (Polish sausage)

   Synonym: (Canada, informal) saucisse polonaise f