sausage

English[edit]

Russian sausage making

Etymology[edit]

From late Middle English sawsiche, from Anglo-Norman sausiche (compare Norman saûciche), from Late Latin salsīcia (compare Sicilian sausizza, Spanish salchicha, Italian salsiccia), feminine of salsīcius (“seasoned with salt”), derivative of Latin salsus (“salted”), from sal (“salt”). More at salt. Doublet of saucisse. See also Sicilian sausizza. Displaced native Old English mearh.

Pronunciation[edit]

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/
(cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑsɪd͡ʒ/
(obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈsæsɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈsɑːsɪd͡ʒ/^[1]
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ɒsɪdʒ, -ɔsɪdʒ, -ɑsɪdʒ

Noun[edit]

sausage (countable and uncountable, plural sausages)

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.
A sausage-shaped thing.
(vulgar slang) Penis.
(informal) A term of endearment.
my little sausage
- 2019, Paullina Simons, Inexpressible Island (End of Forever):
  “Algernon, you silly sausage. Now you want to marry me? Don't you remember we were already engaged to be married, and then I broke it off with you?”
(military, archaic) A saucisse.^[2]

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a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing

Afrikaans: wors (af)
Albanian: suxhuk (sq), sallam (sq)
Arabic: سُجُق‎ m (sujuq), نَقَانِق‎ m (naqāniq)
Egyptian Arabic: سجق‎ m (suguʾ), سوسيس‎ m (susīs)

Morocco: مرقاز‎ (mergaz), سوسيس‎ (susis)
Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: երշիկ (hy) (eršik)
Asturian: salchicha f
Azerbaijani: kolbasa (az)
Basque: txistorra
Belarusian: каўбаса́ f (kaŭbasá)
Bengali: সসেজ (śôśej)
Breton: silzigenn (br)
Bulgarian: на́деница f (nádenica), кренвирш m (krenvirš)
Burmese: ဝက်အူချောင်း (my) (wak-uhkyaung:)
Catalan: salsitxa (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 香腸, 香肠 (hoeng¹ coeng^4-2)

Dungan: чонзы (čonzɨ)

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)

Wu: 香腸, 香肠 (xian zan)
Chuvash: кӑлпасси (kălp̬assi)
Czech: klobása (cs) f
Danish: pølse (da) c
Dutch: worst (nl) m
Esperanto: kolbaso (eo)
Estonian: vorst
Faroese: pylsa f
Finnish: makkara (fi)
French: saucisse (fr) f
Friulian: please add this translation if you can
Galician: salchicha (gl) f, longaínza (gl) f, chourizo (gl) m
Georgian: ძეხვი (ʒexvi)
German: Wurst (de) f
Greek: λουκάνικο (el) n (loukániko)
Ancient: ἀλλᾶς m (allâs), φύσκη f (phúskē), χορδή f (khordḗ), χόλιξ f (khólix)
Greenlandic: immigaq, pølse
Gujarati: સોસેજ f (sosej), ફુલમો m (phulmo)
Hebrew: נַקְנִיק‎ (he) m (naknik)
Hindi: सॉसेज (sŏsej)
Hungarian: kolbász (hu)
Hunsrik: Worst f
Icelandic: pylsa (is) f, bjúga (is) n
Ido: sociso (io)
Indonesian: sosis (id)
Irish: ispín (ga) m
Italian: salsiccia (it) f, salame (it) m, salume (it) m, insaccato (it) m
Japanese: ソーセージ (ja) (sōsēji), カルパス (karupasu) (dry or semi-dry type)
Kalmyk: цуцг (tsutsg)
Kannada: ಸಾಸೇಜ್ (sāsēj)
Kazakh: шұжық (şūjyq), шұжықша (şūjyqşa)
Khmer: សាច់ក្រក (sac krɑɑk)
Korean: 소시지 (ko) (sosiji), 칼파스 (ko) (kalpaseu) (North Korea)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: sosîs (ku)
Kyrgyz: колбаса (qolbasa), чучук (ky) (çuçuq)
Lao: ໄສ້ອົ່ວ (lo) (sai ʼūa)
Latin: botulus (la) m, tomāclum n, farcīmen n, hillae f pl, tuccētum n, salsicia f

Latvian: desa f
Lithuanian: dešra f
Livonian: mȭka
Luxembourgish: Zoossiss (lb) f
Macedonian: ко́лбас m (kólbas)
Malay: sosej
Maltese: salami m, supresatt m
Maori: tōtiti (mi)
Marathi: सॉसेज (sŏsej)
Marshallese: jo̧jej
Middle English: podynge, sawcistre
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
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: клъбаса f (klŭbasa)
Old East Slavic: колбаса f (kolbasa)
Old English: mearh m
Pashto: پچ کولمه‎ f (рǝč kwǝlmá)
Persian: سوسیس‎ (fa) (sosis), کالباس‎ (fa) (kâlbâs), زیجک‎ (zijak)
Piedmontese: saussissa f
Plautdietsch: Worscht f
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: soseji
Swedish: korv (sv) c
Tagalog: suriso, batutay
Tajik: ҳасиб (tg) (hasib), колбаса (kolbasa)
Tamil: தொத்திறைச்சி (tottiṟaicci)
Tatar: казылык (tt) (qazılıq)
Telugu: సాసేజ్ (sāsēj)
Thai: ไส้กรอก (th) (sâi-grɔ̀ɔk)
Tibetan: རྒྱུ་མ་བརྒྱངས་པ (rgyu ma brgyangs pa)
Turkish: sosis (tr), sucuk (tr), salam (tr), kolbasa (tr)
Turkmen: kolbasa
Ukrainian: ковбаса́ (uk) f (kovbasá)
Urdu: ساسیج‎ (sāsej)
Uyghur: كولباسا‎ (kolbasa)
Uzbek: kolbasa (uz)
Vietnamese: xúc xích (vi)
Vilamovian: wiyśt
Walloon: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: selsigen (cy) f
West Frisian: woarst
Yakut: халбаһы (xalbahı)
Yiddish: וווּרשט‎ m or f (vursht)

small, uncooked

Afrikaans: wors (af)
Armenian: նրբերշիկ (hy) (nrberšik), սասիսկի (sasiski) (colloquial)
Belarusian: сасі́ска f (sasíska)
Catalan: salsitxa (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 香腸, 香肠 (hoeng¹ coeng^4-2), 腸仔, 肠仔 (coeng^4-2 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
Galician: salchicha (gl) f
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 or 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. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} kolbaso (eo)
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)

Verb[edit]

sausage (third-person singular simple present sausages, present participle sausaging, simple past and past participle sausaged)

(engineering) To form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.

References[edit]

^ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎^[1], volume I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 10.82, page 315.
^ 1881, Thomas Wilhelm, A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

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Anagrams[edit]

assuage

[1] Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎^[1], volume I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 10.82, page 315.

[2] 1881, Thomas Wilhelm, A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

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