cepelinas

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Lithuanian cepelinas (“Zeppelin”). Doublet of Zeppelin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(t)sɛpəˈliːnəs/

Noun

cepelinas (plural cepelinai)

1. A Lithuanian dumpling made from grated riced potatoes, stuffed with ground meat or another filling such as cottage cheese or mushrooms.
   • 2010, Alexander Wolff, Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure‎^[1]:

     With much of the world having become aware of Lithuanian basketball thanks to the Grateful Dead, I wondered if shrines to other rock acts were in the offing—to Led Zeppelin, perhaps, in honor of what a cepelinas feels like in the pit of the stomach.

   • 2014, Jeanne Jacob, The World Cookbook: The Greatest Recipes from Around the Globe‎^[2]:

     Cepelinai are giant dumplings named for Zeppelin air ships. They are a Lithuanian specialty, served as a main dish.

Translations

Translations

• Belarusian: цэпелі́н m (cepjelín)
• Polish: cepelin (pl) m, kartacz (pl) m
• Russian: цеппели́н (ru) m (ceppelín)
• Ukrainian: цепелі́н (uk) m (cepelín)

Anagrams

• capelines, linespace, pacelines, space line, spaceline

Lithuanian

Cepelinai.

Cepelinas su spirgais.

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zeppelin.

Noun

cepelìnas m (plural cepelìnai) stress pattern 2

1. Zeppelin (metal airship)
2. (often in the plural) cepelinas (Lithuanian potato dumpling)

   Synonym: didžkukulis

Declension

Declension of cepelìnas

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	cepelìnas	cepelìnai
genitive (kilmininkas)	cepelìno	cepelìnų
dative (naudininkas)	cepelìnui	cepelìnams
accusative (galininkas)	cepelìną	cepelinùs
instrumental (įnagininkas)	cepelinù	cepelìnais
locative (vietininkas)	cepelinè	cepelìnuose
vocative (šauksmininkas)	cepelìne	cepelìnai

References

• “cepelinas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
• “cepelinas”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2024