different between pepperoni vs kielbasa

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian peperone (“bell pepper”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /p?p???o?ni/

Noun

pepperoni (countable and uncountable, plural pepperonis or pepperoni)

1. A spicy salami-style Italian-American sausage.
2. Pizza with only tomato sauce, cheese and pepperoni toppings.

   Yo, Tony, gimme a slice of pepperoni and a coke.

Hypernyms

• (sausage): salami, sausage
• (pizza): pizza

Descendants

• ? Finnish: pepperoni
• ? French: pepperoni
• ? Icelandic: pepperóní
• ? Polish: pepperoni

Translations

Finnish

Etymology

English pepperoni, from Italian peperone (“bell pepper”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pep?eroni/, [?pe?p?e??ro?ni]
• Rhymes: -oni
• Syllabification: pep?pe?ro?ni

Noun

pepperoni

1. pepperoni (sausage)
2. pepperoni (pizza)
3. A type of longish, relatively mild, pickled, yellowish green chili, often served as condiment to doner kebab.

Declension

French

Etymology

English pepperoni

Noun

pepperoni m (plural pepperonis)

1. pepperoni (sausage)
2. pepperoni (pizza)

Hypernyms

• (sausage): salami, saucisse
• (pizza): pizza

Polish

Etymology

From English pepperoni, from Italian peperone, from Latin piper (“pepper”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (péperi, “pepper”), via Middle Persian from an Indo-Aryan source, ultimately from Sanskrit ??????? (pippali, “long pepper”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?p.p??r?.?i/

Noun

pepperoni n (indeclinable)

1. pepperoni (sausage)
2. pepperoni (pizza)
3. peperoncino

Further reading

• pepperoni in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• pepperoni in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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