kielbasa

See also kiełbasa

English

Alternative forms

• kielbassi, kielbasy, kielbusa
• kobasa, kolbasa, kolbasy

Etymology

From Polish kiełbasa, from East Turkic kül bassï, from Turkic *kül bastï. Compare Ukrainian ковбаса (kovbasá, “sausage, kubasa”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˌkɪlˈbɑsə/, /kɨlˈbɑsə/; (alternate US pronunciations) IPA: /kɨˈbɑsə/, /kɪlˈbesə/, /kɪlˈbɑsi/, /kɪlbɑsˈi/
• (Polish pronunciation) IPA: [kʲɛwˈbasa]

Noun

kielbasa (plural kielbasas or kielbasy)

1. A spicy, smoked sausage of a particular kind.
2. (slang) the penis.

External links

• Kielbasa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “kielbasa” in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
• “kielbasa” in Frederic Gomes Cassidy, Joan Houston Hall (1985), Dictionary of American Regional English, p 212, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0674205197.