kubasa

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Etymology

From Ukrainian ковбаса (kovbasá, “sausage”), a very early Slavic borrowing with no clear antecedent. The Slavic variants point to several reconstructed forms from Proto-Slavic *kъlbasa, *klobasa, *kobasa. It is considered most likely to be borrowed from Turkic language; compare Turkish külbastı (“roasted meat”), from kül (“ash”), from Old Turkic (Uyghuric) kül, from Proto-Turkic *kül (“ashes”).

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /kuːbɒˈsɒ, ˈkuːbəsɒ/
• Hyphenation: ku‧basa

Noun

kubasa (countable and uncountable; plural kubasas)

1. (Canada) A smoked pork sausage with garlic, originating in Eastern Europe.

Synonyms

• garlic ring
• garlic sausage
• kielbasa
• kolbassa

Derived terms

• kubie, kubie dog, kubie burger

References

• “kubasa” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• “ковбаса” in Etymolohichnyĭ Slovnyk Ukraïnsʼkoï Movy (Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language), O.S. Melʼnychuk, 1982–2006.