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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Polish barszcz. Doublet of borscht.
Noun[edit]
barszcz (countable and uncountable, plural barszczy)
- (rare) Polish borscht.
- 1921, Selected Polish Tales, page 7:
- Slimakowa looked him up and down, gave him a bowl of barszcz and another of potatoes, and told him to wash in the river.
- 1990, Anton Gill, Berlin to Bucharest: Travels in Eastern Europe, page 62:
- She poured herself another glass of Bulgarian white, and spooned up the remainder of her barszcz before polishing off the small meat pasty that is always served with beetroot soup.
- 1999, Cold War, Common Pursuit: British Council Lecturers in Poland, page 73:
- […] cutlery and glasses would appear and then dish after dish of fish en gelée, bowls of barszcz with twisted puff pastry sticks, bigos, pierogi, sliced ham, fresh and picked vegetables, bottled fruits, cakes, tarts and bottles and bottles of flavoured vodkas.
- 2004, Helen McCourt Mentek, “The Wheel of Life”, in Ripples on a Puddle: A Collection of Short Stories, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 228:
- Women bustled about laying out large platters of chicken, kielbasa rings, heaping bowls of golabki, pierogi and steaming tureens of barszcz.
Usage notes[edit]
Usually italicised as a loanword.
Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old Polish barszcz. Compare Czech bršť, Slovak bršt, and Ukrainian борщ (boršč).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
barszcz m inan (diminutive barszczyk)
- borscht (beetroot soup)
- Synonym: barszcz czerwony
- hogweed, cow parsnip, pigweed (any plant of the genus Heracleum)
Declension[edit]
Declension of barszcz
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | barszcz | barszcze |
genitive | barszczu | barszczów/barszczy |
dative | barszczowi | barszczom |
accusative | barszcz | barszcze |
instrumental | barszczem | barszczami |
locative | barszczu | barszczach |
vocative | barszczu | barszcze |
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