schab

See also: Schab

Polish

schab

Etymology

Unknown.

Compare with dialectal chab, chaba, chaby pl, skaby pl (“rib(s); a hollow in the body near the clavicle (in humans), the sacrum (in animals); lean meat; cattle waste; skinny old animal”), chabor, chabora (“bone; pig's shoulder; skinny animal”), chrabury pl (“bones without meat”), chaber (“bone”), chabry pl (“scrap of meat”); Kashubian schabë pl (“poultry skeleton”), chaba (“skinny cow”), chaber (“poultry back bone peeled of meat”).

Equivalents outside Poland: Middle Russian схабы pl (sxaby), Russian схаб (sxab, “costal part”), Old Ruthenian схабъ (sxab, “pork meat”), Ukrainian схаб (sxab, “piece of pork or lamb from the costal part of the carcass”), Belarusian схаб (sxab), Moravian Czech chabanina (“dry, poor meat”) (> Polish chabanina?), maybe Russian кабани́на (kabanína, “wild boar meat”), Ukrainian кабани́на (kabanýna) (> Polish kabanina).

Brückner suggested chabina (“rod, bar”) as a possibly related word. Moravian chabanina is usually connected to Czech chabý (“feeble, flimsy, weak”) from Proto-Slavic *xabъ. Russian/Ukrainian кабани́на is ultimately of Turkic origin (see Russian кабан (kaban), Polish kaban).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsxap/

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• Rhymes: -ap
• Syllabification: schab
• Homophone: Schab

Noun

schab m inan (diminutive schabik)

1. pork loin (meat)
2. pork loin (dish)
3. (colloquial) muscular and overweight young man, with folds of fat on his neck and shoulders, towards whom the speaker feels contempt and fear

Declension

Declension of schab

	singular	plural
nominative	schab	schaby
genitive	schabu	schabów
dative	schabowi	schabom
accusative	schab	schaby
instrumental	schabem	schabami
locative	schabie	schabach
vocative	schabie	schaby

Derived terms

adjective

• schabowy

 

nouns

• schabek
• schaboszczak
• schaby

 

Further reading

• schab in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• schab in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “схаб”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “схаб”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• "схабъ" in Belarusian-Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at Verbum
• Rejzek, Jiří (2001) “chabý”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 1st edition, Voznice: LEDA, →ISBN, page 228