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Polish
Alternative feorms
Etymology
Borrowed from German Brei.
Pronunciation
Noun
bryja f
- (colloquial) goop, slush (thick, semi-liquid mass with an unpleasant appearance)
- Synonyms: ciapa, ciapka, pacia
- (figuratively, more specifically) slush, thick mud
- (cooking) bryja (regional dish made of cooked fruit and flour, served hot or cold with potatoes, dumplings or bread)
- (Kielce) Synonym of wywar (“decoction in a distillery”)
Declension
Further reading
- bryja in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- bryja in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Władysław Siarkowski (1878) “bryje”, in “Materiały do etnografii ludu polskiego z okolic Kielc”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowej (in Polish), volume 2, chapter 3, Krakow: Komisyja Antropologiczna Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, page 245