different between kielbasy vs kielbasa

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kil?b?si/, /k?(l)?b?si/, enPR: k?l-bä?s?, k?(l)-bä?s?
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ki?l?bas?/, enPR: k?l-b?s??
• Rhymes: -??si, -æsi

Noun

kielbasy

1. plural of kielbasa

References

English

Alternative forms

• kielbasy, kolbasa (uncommon)
• kielbassi, kolbasi, kolbassi, kolbasy (rare)

Etymology

From Polish kie?basa (“sausage”), from a Proto-Slavic word which may derive from Proto-Turkic *kül +? *bastï, literally “ash pressed”. See the Ukrainian cognate ???????? (kovbasá, “sausage”), whence kubasa, for more information.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kil?b?s?/, /k?(l)?b?s?/, enPR: k?l-bä?s?, k?(l)-bä?s?
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ki?l?bas?/, enPR: k?l-b?s??
• Rhymes: -??s?, -æs?
• Hyphenation: kiel?ba?sa

Noun

kielbasa (countable and uncountable, plural kielbasas or kielbasy)

1. A spicy, smoked sausage of a particular kind from Eastern Europe.

   Synonyms: (informal) Polish sausage, (Canada) kubasa

2. (slang) Penis.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:Penis

Translations

Further reading

• kielbasa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “kielbasa” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “kielbasa”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• “kielbasa”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “kielbasa”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “kielbasa” in Frederic Gomes Cassidy, Joan Houston Hall (1985), Dictionary of American Regional English, p 212, Harvard University Press, ?ISBN.

French

Etymology

From Polish kie?basa (“sausage”), from a Proto-Slavic word which may derive from Proto-Turkic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kj?l.ba.za/, /kj?l.ba.sa/
• Rhymes: -a

Noun

kielbasa m or f (plural kielbasas)

1. kielbasa (Polish sausage)

   Synonym: (Canada, informal) saucisse polonaise f