goulash

English

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

Alternative forms

• gulyas, gulasch, goulasch, gulash

Etymology

Borrowed from German Gulasch, from Hungarian gul(y)ás, short for gulyás hús (“beef or lamb soup made by herdsmen while pasturing”), from gulyás (“herdsman”) +‎ hús (“meat”). First attested in English 1866.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡuː.læʃ/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

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

Noun

goulash (countable and uncountable, plural goulashes)

1. A stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika.
2. (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.

Derived terms

• American goulash
• goulash communism

Translations

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

• Armenian: գուլյաշ (hy) (gulyaš)
• Belarusian: гуля́ш m (huljáš)
• Bulgarian: гу́лаш m (gúlaš)
• Carpathian Rusyn: ґу́ляш m (gúljaš)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 匈牙利湯／匈牙利汤 (Xiōngyálì tāng)

• Czech: guláš (cs) m
• Danish: gullasch c
• Dutch: goulash (nl) m, goelasj m
• Faroese: gullasj n
• Finnish: gulassi (fi)
• French: goulash (fr) m, goulache (fr) m (1990 reform spelling)
• Georgian: გულიაში (guliaši)
• German: Gulasch (de) n
• Hungarian: paprikás pörkölt (distinct from gulyás)
• Icelandic: gúllas (is)
• 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)
• Korean: 구야시 (ko) (guyasi)
• Lithuanian: guliašas
• Macedonian: гулаш m (gulaš)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gulasj m

  Nynorsk: gulasj m

• Polish: gulasz (pl) m
• Portuguese: goulash (pt) m, gulache (pt) m, gulyás m
• Russian: гуля́ш (ru) m (guljáš)
• Serbo-Croatian: gulaš (sh) m
• Slovak: guláš (sk) m, guľáš m
• Slovene: golaž m
• Spanish: gulasch m
• Swedish: gulasch (sv)
• Turkish: gulaş (tr)
• Ukrainian: гуля́ш (uk) m (huljáš)
• Welsh: gwlash m
• Yiddish: גולאַש m (gulash)

a style of bridge play

• Japanese: グラッシュ (gurasshu)

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

Alternative forms

• gulache, gulyás

Noun

goulash m (uncountable)

1. goulash (a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream)