sausage

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Russian sausage making

Etymology

From late Middle English sausige, from Anglo-Norman saussiche (compare Norman saûciche), from Late Latin salsīcia (compare Spanish salchicha, Italian salsiccia), neuter plural of salsīcius ‎(“seasoned with salt”), derivative of Latin salsus ‎(“salted”), from sal ‎(“salt”). More at salt.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑsɪd͡ʒ/

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Noun

sausage ‎(countable and uncountable, plural sausages)

1. A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic casing; a length of this food.
2. A sausage-shaped thing.
3. (vulgar slang) Penis.
4. A term of endearment.

   my little sausage

   Silly sausage.

5. (military, archaic) A saucisse.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of 1881, Thomas Wilhelm, "A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer" to this entry?)

Hyponyms

Hyponyms

• andouille
• baloney
• banger
• black pudding
• blood pudding
• bologna, polony
• boudin
• Braunschweiger
• chipolata

• chorizo
• frankfurter, frankfurt, frank, cocktail frankfurt, cocktail frank
• kielbasa
• kubasa
• linguica
• merguez
• mortadella
• pepperoni
• Portuguese sausage

• salami
• saveloy, sav, cocktail savaloy, cocktail sav
• smokie
• snag
• white pudding
• wiener, cocktail wiener
• wors, boerewors
• wurst, bratwurst, knackwurst, knockwurst, liverwurst, wienerwurst

Derived terms

Terms derived from sausage

• blood sausage
• Cumberland sausage
• farmer's sausage
• garlic sausage
• hot dog sausage
• lamb sausage

• liver sausage
• play hide the sausage
• Polish sausage
• sausage dog
• sausage fest
• sausage meat

• sausage meat
• sausage party
• sausage roll
• sausage tree
• Vienna sausage

Coordinate terms

• allantois
• haggis
• kishke, kishka
• pudding
• toad-in-the-hole

Translations

a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing

• Afrikaans: wors
• Albanian: suxhuk (sq), sallam (sq)
• Arabic: سُجُق m ‎(sujuq), نَقَانِق m ‎(naqāniq)

  Egyptian Arabic: سجق m ‎(suguʾ), سوسيس m ‎(susīs)

  Morocco: سوسيس ‎(susis)

• Armenian: երշիկ (hy) ‎(eršik)
• Asturian: salchicha f
• Azeri: kolbasa (az)
• Basque: txistorra
• Belarusian: каўбаса́ f ‎(kaŭbasá)
• Bengali: সসেজ ‎(sôsej)
• Breton: silzigenn (br)
• Bulgarian: на́деница f ‎(nádenica)
• Burmese: ဝက်အူချောင်း (my) ‎(waku hkyaung:)
• Catalan: salsitxa f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 香腸, 香肠 ‎(hoeng¹ coeng⁴⁻²)

  Hakka: 煙腸, 烟肠 ‎(yên-chhòng), 灌腸, 灌肠 ‎(kon-chhòng)

  Mandarin: 香腸 (zh), 香肠 (zh) ‎(xiāngcháng)

  Min Nan: 煙腸 (zh-min-nan), 烟肠 ‎(ian-chhiâng, ian-chhiân), 灌腸 (zh-min-nan), 灌肠 ‎(kòan-chhiâng)

• Czech: klobása f
• Danish: pølse (da) c
• Dutch: worst (nl) m
• Esperanto: kolbaso
• Estonian: vorst
• Faroese: pylsa f
• Finnish: makkara (fi)
• French: saucisse (fr) f
• Georgian: ძეხვი ‎(ʒexvi)
• German: Wurst (de) f
• Greek: λουκάνικο (el) n ‎(loukániko)
• Greenlandic: immigaq
• Gujarati: સોસેજ f ‎(sōsej), ફુલમો m ‎(phulamō)
• Hebrew: נַקְנִיק (he) m ‎(naknik)
• Hindi: सॉसेज ‎(sŏsej)
• Hungarian: kolbász (hu)
• Icelandic: pylsa (is) f
• Ido: sociso (io)
• Indonesian: sosis (id)
• Irish: ispín (ga) m
• Italian: salame (it) m, salume (it) m, insaccato (it) m
• Japanese: ソーセージ (ja) ‎(sōsēji)
• Kalmyk: цуцг ‎(tsutsg)
• Kannada: ಸಾಸೇಜ್ ‎(sāsēj)
• Kazakh: шұжық ‎(şujıq), шұжықша ‎(şujıqşa)
• Khmer: សាច់ក្រក ‎(sac krɑɑk)
• Korean: 소시지 (ko) ‎(sosiji)
• Kyrgyz: колбаса ‎(kolbasa), чучук (ky) ‎(çuçuk)
• Lao: ໄສ້ອົ່ວ (lo) ‎(sai 'ūa)

• Latin: salsicia
• Latvian: desa f
• Lithuanian: dešra f
• Livonian: mȭka
• Luxembourgish: Zoossiss f
• Macedonian: ко́лбас m ‎(kólbas)
• Malay: sosej
• Maltese: salami m, supresatt m
• Maori: tōtiti
• Marathi: सॉसेज ‎(sŏsej)
• Mongolian: хиам (mn) ‎(hiam)
• Navajo: bisóodi bitsįʼ yikʼánígíí
• Norman: sâociche f (continental Normandy), sauchisse f (Guernsey), saûciche f (Jersey)
• Northern Sami: márfi
• Norwegian: pølse (no) c
• Persian: سوسیس (fa) ‎(sosis), کالباس (fa) ‎(kâlbâs)
• Polish: kiełbasa (pl) f
• Portuguese: salsicha (pt) f, linguiça (pt) f
• Quechua: aycha t'iqi
• Romanian: cârnat (ro) m
• Russian: колбаса́ (ru) f ‎(kolbasá), соси́ска (ru) f ‎(sosíska) (small sausage)
• Scottish Gaelic: isbean m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кобасица f

  Roman: kobasica (sh) f

• Sinhalese: සොසේජ් ‎(sosēj)
• Skolt Sami: määʹrf
• Slovak: klobása f
• Slovene: klobasa (sl) f
• Sotho: boroso
• Spanish: embutido (es) m, salchicha (es) f, salchichón m
• Swahili: kusagwa
• Swedish: korv (sv) c
• Tagalog: suriso, batutay
• Tajik: ҳасиб (tg) ‎(hasib), колбаса ‎(kolbasa)
• Tamil: தொத்திறைச்சி ‎(tottiṟaicci)
• Telugu: సాసేజ్ ‎(sāsēj)
• Thai: ไส้กรอก (th) ‎(sâi gròk)
• Turkish: sosis (tr), sucuk (tr), salam (tr), kolbasa (tr)
• Turkmen: kolbasa
• Ukrainian: ковбаса́ (uk) f ‎(kovbasá)
• Urdu: ساسیج ‎(sāsej)
• Uzbek: kolbasa (uz)
• Vietnamese: xúc xích (vi)
• Welsh: selsigen (cy) f
• West Frisian: woarst
• Yiddish: וווּרשט m, f ‎(vursht)

small, uncooked

• Afrikaans: wors
• Armenian: նրբերշիկ (hy) ‎(nrberšik), սասիսկի ‎(sasiski) (colloquial)
• Belarusian: сасі́ска f ‎(sasíska)
• Catalan: salsitxa f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 香腸, 香肠 ‎(hoeng¹ coeng⁴⁻²), 腸仔, 肠仔 ‎(coeng⁴⁻² zai²)

  Mandarin: 腸兒 (zh), 肠儿 (zh) ‎(chángr)

• Czech: párek (cs) m, vuřt (cs) m
• Dutch: worst (nl) m
• Finnish: makkara (fi)
• French: saucisson (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Würstchen (de) n, Wurst (de) f
• Greek: λουκάνικο (el) n ‎(loukániko)
• Irish: ispín (ga) m
• Italian: salsiccia (it) f
• Japanese: ソーセージ (ja) ‎(sōsēji), 腸詰め ‎(ちょうづめ, chōzume)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: desa f

• Macedonian: ко́лбас m ‎(kólbas)
• Maltese: zalzett m
• Marathi: सॉसेज ‎(sŏsej)
• Norwegian: pølse (no) c, sosiss m
• Persian: سوسیس (fa) ‎(sosis)
• Polish: kiełbaska (pl) f
• Portuguese: salsicha (pt) f, linguiça (pt) f
• Russian: соси́ска (ru) f ‎(sosíska), сарде́лька (ru) f ‎(sardɛ́lʹka) (larger)
• Scottish Gaelic: isbean m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кобасица f

  Roman: kobasica (sh) f

• Sotho: boroso
• Spanish: salchicha (es) f
• Turkish: sosis (tr)
• Ukrainian: соси́ска f ‎(sosýska)
• Uzbek: sosiska
• West Frisian: woarst
• Yiddish: וווּרשט m, f ‎(vursht)

sausage-shaped thing

• Finnish: makkara (fi)
• Greek: λουκάνικο (el) n ‎(loukániko)
• Portuguese: salsichão (pt) m

• Russian: колбаса́ (ru) f ‎(kolbasá), соси́ска (ru) f ‎(sosíska)
• Spanish: salchicha (es) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} kolbaso
• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} ძეხვი ‎(ʒexvi), ^{(please verify)} კუპატი ‎(ḳuṗaṭi), ^{(please verify)} სოსისი ‎(sosisi)

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} cârnat (ro) m
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} embutido (es) m, ^{(please verify)} chorizo (es)

External links

• List of sausages at Wikipedia

Anagrams

• assuage