pączek
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See also: paczek
English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Polish pączek, diminutive of pąk (“bud”). Doublet of ponchik.
Noun
pączek (plural pączki)
Polish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
pączek m inan (diminutive pączuszek or pączuś, related adjective pączkowy)
- diminutive of pąk
- doughnut (deep-fried piece of dough or batter)
- paczki (traditional Polish doughnut)
- (botany, horticulture) bud (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- Synonym: pąk
- (biology) bud (small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism)
Declension
Declension of pączek
Derived terms
adverbs
nouns
verbs
- pączkować impf
Related terms
adjectives
nouns
verbs
- pąkować impf
Descendants
- → Belarusian: по́нчык (pónčyk)
- → English: paczek; (via plural) paczki
- → German: Pączki (via plural)
- → Latvian: pončiks
- → Lithuanian: (proscribed) pončka, pončkas
- → Russian: по́нчик (pónčik), по́нчикъ (pónčik) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
- → Ukrainian: по́нчик (pónčyk)
Further reading
- pączek in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- pączek in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Aleksander Saloni (1899) “ponczki”, in “Lud wiejski w okolicy Przeworska”, in M. Arct, E. Lubowski, editors, Wisła : miesięcznik gieograficzno-etnograficzny (in Polish), volume 13, Warsaw: Artur Gruszecki, page 243