goulash

English

Goulash prepared in a traditional bogrács (“cauldron”).

Alternative forms

• gulyas, gulasch, goulasch, gulash

Etymology

From French goulasch, itself from Hungarian gulyás (“herdsman”), an ellipsis of gulyáshús (“herdsman meat”), gulyásétel (“herdsman food”), and/or gulyástokány (“herdsman stew”). First attested in English in 1866. Doublet of gulyás.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡuː.læʃ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡuː.lɑːʃ/
• Rhymes: -æʃ

Noun

goulash (countable and uncountable, plural goulashes)

2. A stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika.
3. (Midwestern US) Synonym of American chop suey.
4. (bridge) A style of play in which the cards are not thoroughly shuffled between consecutive deals, so as to make the suits less evenly distributed between the players.
5. A hodgepodge, mishmash
   • 1978 February 4, Eric Rogers, “Men And Child Care”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 30, page 9:

     While people do not flaunt their preferences, there is also no attempt to hide the facts. One man, who had worked with the collective for three months, could not divide the group by sexuality. "It seems like a goulash of gays, straights, bi's but you can't tell who's who, or what's what."

Derived terms

• American goulash
• goulash communism

Translations

a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream

• Afrikaans: goelasj
• Albanian: gullash m
• Arabic: غُولَاش m (ḡūlāš)
• Armenian: գուլյաշ (hy) (gulyaš)
• Belarusian: гуля́ш m (huljáš)
• Bulgarian: гула́ш m (guláš)
• Carpathian Rusyn: ґу́ляш m (gúljaš)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 匈牙利湯 / 匈牙利汤 (Xiōngyálì tāng, literally “Hungarian soup”), 古拉什 (gǔlāshí)

• Czech: guláš (cs) m
• Danish: gullasch c
• Dutch: goulash (nl) m, goelasj m
• Estonian: guljašš
• Faroese: gullasj n
• Finnish: gulassi (fi)
• French: goulash (fr) m, goulache (fr) m (1990 reform spelling)
• Georgian: გულიაში (guliaši)
• German: Gulasch (de) n
• Greek: γκούλας (el) n (gkoúlas)
• Hebrew: גולאש \ גּוּלָשׁ (he) m (gúlash)
• Hindi: गुलाश m (gulāś)
• Hungarian: paprikás pörkölt (distinct from gulyás)
• Icelandic: gúllas (is) n
• Ido: gulyasho (io)
• Irish: gúláis f
• Italian: gulasch (it) m, stufato (it) m
• Japanese: グヤーシュ (guyāshu), グーラーシュ (gūrāshu)
• Kazakh: гуляш (güwlyaš)
• Korean: 구야시 (ko) (guyasi)
• Kyrgyz: гуляш (gulyaş)
• Latvian: gulašs m
• Lithuanian: guliašas m
• Macedonian: гулаш m (gulaš)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gulasj m

  Nynorsk: gulasj m

• Pannonian Rusyn: ґулаш m (gulaš)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: گویاش (guyâš)

• Polish: gulasz (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: goulash (pt) m, gulache (pt) m, gulyás m
• Romanian: gulaș (ro) n
• Russian: гуля́ш (ru) m (guljáš)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гу̏ла̄ш m

  Latin: gȕlāš (sh) m

• Slovak: guláš (sk) m, guľáš m
• Slovene: golaž m
• Spanish: gulasch m, goulash (es) m
• Swedish: gulasch (sv) c
• Thai: กูยาช
• Turkish: gulaş (tr)
• Ukrainian: гуля́ш (uk) m (huljáš)
• Uzbek: gulyash (uz)
• Welsh: gwlash m
• Yiddish: גולאַש m (gulash)

a style of bridge play

• Japanese: グラッシュ (gurasshu)
• Polish: gulasz (pl) m inan

Dutch

Alternative forms

• goelasj

Etymology

From German Gulasch, from Hungarian gulyás.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡulɑʃ/, /ˈɣulɑʃ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: gou‧lash

Noun

goulash m (plural goulashes, diminutive goulashje n)

1. goulash

Derived terms

• goulashcommunisme

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡuˈlaʃ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡuˈlaʃ/

Noun

goulash m (uncountable)

1. alternative form of gulache