kubasa
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English
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Etymology
From Ukrainian ковбаса́ (kovbasá /kowbasˈa/, “sausage”, see there for more), a very early Slavic borrowing with no clear antecedent.
The Slavic variants (including Polish kiełbasa, whence kielbasa) point to several reconstructed forms from Proto-Slavic *kъlbasa, *klobasa, *kobasa. It is considered most likely to be borrowed from Proto-Turkic *kül + *bastï, literally “ash pressed”; compare Turkish külbastı (“roasted meat”), basmak (“to press”).
Pronunciation
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌkubəˈsɑ/, /ˈkubəsɑ/, enPR: ko͞o'bə-säʹ, ko͞oʹbə-sä
- Rhymes: -ɑː
- Hyphenation: ku‧ba‧sa
Noun
kubasa (countable and uncountable, plural kubasas)
- (Canada) A smoked pork sausage with garlic, originating in Eastern Europe.
- Synonyms: garlic ring, garlic sausage, kielbasa
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References
- “kubasa” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “ковбаса”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka