coleslaw

See also: colesław and cole slaw

English

White coleslaw.

Alternative forms

• cole slaw (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *keh₂ulisder.

Latin caulisbor.

Old Dutch *kōl / *kōla

Middle Dutch col / cole

Dutch kool

Dutch sla

Dutch koolslabor.

English coleslaw

Borrowed from Dutch koolsla (mentioned in English as the Dutch name by at least in 1794), from kool (“cabbage”) + sla (“salad”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊlslɔː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊlslɔ/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊlslɑ/

• Audio (Canada):

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• Rhymes: -əʊlslɔː

Noun

coleslaw (usually uncountable, plural coleslaws)

1. A salad of finely shredded raw cabbage and sometimes shredded carrots, dressed with mayonnaise (white slaw) or a vinaigrette (red slaw).

Synonyms

• slaw (US, Canada)

Derived terms

• canslaw
• cheese slaw
• kimslaw
• North Carolina coleslaw
• rainbow coleslaw

Descendants

• → Dutch: coleslaw
• → Japanese: コールスロー
• → Polish: coleslaw

Translations

a salad

• Afrikaans: koolslaai
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 涼拌捲心菜 / 凉拌卷心菜 (liángbàn juǎnxīncài)

• Czech: zelný salát
• Dutch: koolsla (nl) f, coleslaw m
• Esperanto: brasikosalato
• French: coleslaw (fr) m, salade de chou (fr) f (Quebec, New Brunswick)
• German: Krautsalat (de) m, Kohlsalat m, Weißkohlsalat m
• Greek: λαχανοσαλάτα (el) f (lachanosaláta)
• Hungarian: káposztasaláta (hu)
• Icelandic: hrásalat n
• Japanese: コールスロー (kōrusurō)
• Māori: roi huamata
• Polish: coleslaw (pl) m, colesław m, kolesław m
• Russian: сала́т из капу́сты m (salát iz kapústy), капу́стный сала́т m (kapústnyj salát)
• Slovak: kapustný šalát m
• Spanish: curtida (es) f (El Salvador), ensalada de repollo f
• Turkish: lahana salatası

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English coleslaw, from Dutch koolsla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoːl.slɑʋ/
• Hyphenation: cole‧slaw

Noun

coleslaw m (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. coleslaw

Polish

coleslaw

Alternative forms

• colesław, kolesław

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English coleslaw. The colloquial pronunciation results from similarity of the word to the Polish given name Bolesław.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ˈkɔl.slɔw/, (colloquial) /kɔˈlɛ.swaf/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔlslɔw, -ɛswaf
• Syllabification: cole‧slaw, co‧le‧slaw

Noun

coleslaw m inan (indeclinable)

1. coleslaw salad (salad of finely shredded raw cabbage and sometimes shredded carrots, dressed with mayonnaise (white slaw) or a vinaigrette (red slaw))

Further reading

• “coleslaw”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)