korovai

English

Alternative forms

• karavai (from modern Russian)
• kravai (from Bulgarian)

Etymology

From older Russian корова́й (korováj) (before 1956 reform) or Ukrainian корова́й (korováj). The modern Russian spelling is карава́й (karaváj).

Noun

Korovai at a bread festival in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

korovai (plural korovais or korovai)

1. A large, single-piece round or rectangular loaf of bread, elaborately decorated and served at a wedding

Translations

a large, single-piece round or rectangular loaf of bread, elaborately decorated and served at a wedding

• Armenian: կարավայ (karavay)
• Belarusian: карава́й m (karaváj)
• Bulgarian: крава́й (bg) m (kraváj)
• Macedonian: кравај m (kravaj)
• Old East Slavic: короваи m (korovai)
• Polish: korowaj m
• Russian: карава́й (ru) m (karaváj), корова́й (ru) m (korováj) (before 1956 reform)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кра̀ва̑ј m

  Roman: kràvȃj (sh) m

• Slovene: kravaj m
• Ukrainian: корова́й (uk) m (korováj)