ковбаса

Ukrainian

Alternative forms

• ківбаса (kivbasá) (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle and Old Ukrainian (deprecated template usage) колбаса (kolbasá), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old East Slavic (deprecated template usage) кълбаса (kŭlbasa). Slavic cognates point to several reconstructed forms ((deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Slavic Template:recons, Template:recons, Template:recons), indicating that this is a very early borrowing, with no clear antecedent. It is considered most likely to originate from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Turkish (deprecated template usage) külbastı, from (deprecated template usage) kül, from Old Turkish (deprecated template usage) kül.

Other possible connections include East Slavic *(deprecated template usage) колб- (kolb-) or *(deprecated template usage) ковб- (kovb-), cognate of Russian (deprecated template usage) колоб (kólob), Russian and Ukrainian (deprecated template usage) колобок (kolobók), Ukrainian (deprecated template usage) ковбиця (kóvbycja), (deprecated template usage) ковбан (kovbán), (deprecated template usage) ковбик (kóvbyk), (deprecated template usage) ковбатка (kovbátka), or onomatopoeic (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European Template:recons, Template:recons, cognate of Bulgarian (deprecated template usage) кълцам (kъlcam), Ukrainian (deprecated template usage) колоти (kolóty), (deprecated template usage) лускати (lúskaty), (deprecated template usage) дзьобати (dz’óbaty), Old Church Slavonic (deprecated template usage) кльчьтати (klĭčĭtati).

There is also the unlikely suggestion of a connection to (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Slavic Template:recons; compare Russian (deprecated template usage) колба (kolbá), (deprecated template usage) колбь (kolb’), Ukrainian (deprecated template usage) коблик (kóblyk), (deprecated template usage) ковблик (kóvblyk).

Speculations of an origin in Hebrew (deprecated template usage) כל (deprecated template usage) בּשׂר (kôl-bāśār) or French (deprecated template usage) calebasse are considered tenuous in the light of semasiology, chronology and geography.

Compare Russian (deprecated template usage) колбаса (kolbasá), Belarusian (deprecated template usage) каўбаса (kaŭbasá), (deprecated template usage) кілбаса (kilbasá) and dialectal (deprecated template usage) келбаса (kelbasá), the last two from Polish, Old East Slavic (deprecated template usage) колбаса (kolbasa), Polish (deprecated template usage) kiełbasa and archaic (deprecated template usage) kiełbodziej, Kashubian (deprecated template usage) kiełbas, Czech (deprecated template usage) klobása, rarely (deprecated template usage) klobás, and archaically (deprecated template usage) koblása, Slovak (deprecated template usage) kolbasa, (deprecated template usage) klobása, (deprecated template usage) kubása, and dialectal (deprecated template usage) klbása, Upper Sorbian (deprecated template usage) kołbasa and dialectal (deprecated template usage) kołbasa, Lower Sorbian (deprecated template usage) kjałbasa, rarely (deprecated template usage) kjałbas, Bulgarian (deprecated template usage) колбаса (kolbása), (deprecated template usage) колбас (kolbás), and dialectal (deprecated template usage) калбаса (kalbása), (deprecated template usage) кълбаса (kŭlbása), and (deprecated template usage) кобаса (kobása), Macedonian (deprecated template usage) колбаса (kolbása), Serbo-Croatian (deprecated template usage) кобасица (kobásica) and dialectal (deprecated template usage) клобаса (klobása), and (deprecated template usage) клобасица (klobásica), Slovenian (deprecated template usage) клобаса (klobása).

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /koʋbaˈsa/

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Noun

1. sausage

Declension

A hard-type feminine noun of the first declension.

number	singular	plural
nominative	ковбаса (kovbasá)	ковбаси (kovbásy)
genitive	ковбаси (kovbasý)	ковбас (kovbás)
dative	ковбасі (kovbasí)	ковбасам (kovbásam)
accusative	ковбасу (kovbasú)	ковбаси (kovbásy)
vocative	ковбасо (kovbáso)	ковбаси (kovbásy)
instrumental	ковбасою (kovbasóju)	ковбасами (kovbásamy)
locative	ковбасі (kovbasí)	ковбасах (kovbásax)

Synonyms

• ковбаска (kovbáska, diminutive)
• ковбасочка (kovbásočka, diminutive)
• ковбасисько (kovbasýs’ko, augmentative)
• ковбасище (kovbasýšče, augmentative)

Derived terms

• ковбасна (kovbásna) ‘sausage shop’
• ковбасня (kovbasnjá) ‘sausage shop, factory’
• ковбасник (kovbásnýk) ‘sausage maker’
• ковбасяник (kovbasjányk, dialectal) ‘sausage maker’
• ковбасниця (kovbásnýcja, dialectal) ‘sausage skins’
• ковбасянка (kovbasjánka, dialectal) ‘sausage skins’
• ковбасний (kovbásnyj) ‘sausage’ adj.
• ковбасовий (kovbasóvyj, dialectal) ‘sausage’ adj.
• Ковбаса (Kovbasá/Kovbásá, family name)
• Ковбасюк (Kovbasjúk, family name)

Related terms

• ковба (kóvba, dialectal) ‘unappealing woman’
• ковбаль (kóvbal’, dialectal) ‘stuffed pig's stomach’
• ковбан (kovbán, dialectal), ковбик (kóvbyk) ‘chopping block, stump’
• ковбаня (kovbánja) ‘underwater pit, puddle’
• ковбасити (kovbásyty, dialectal) ‘to dally or goof off at work’
• ковбатка (kovbátka, dialectal) ‘scrap of meat’
• ковбашка (kovbáška), ковбиця (kovbýcja) ‘ash pit’

Descendants

• kolbassa (English)
• kovbasa (English, romanized)
• kubasa (English)

References

• “kolbassa, kubasa” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Template:R:Rudnyckyj 1962
• Template:R:Melnycuk 1982