sausage

English

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. Doublet of saucisse. See also Sicilian sausizza.

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. (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?”

5. (military, archaic) A saucisse.

Hypernyms

• food
• foodstuff

Hyponyms

• andouille
• baloney
• banger
• black pudding
• blood pudding
• blood sausage
• boerewors
• bologna
• boudin
• bratwurst
• Braunschweiger
• chipolata
• chorizo
• cocktail frank
• cocktail frankfurt
• cocktail sav
• cocktail savaloy
• cocktail wiener
• Cumberland sausage
• farmer's sausage
• frank
• frankfurt
• frankfurter
• garlic sausage
• hot dog sausage
• kielbasa
• knackwurst
• knockwurst
• kubasa
• lamb sausage
• linguica
• liver sausage
• liverwurst
• merguez
• mortadella
• pepperoni
• Polish sausage
• polony
• Portuguese sausage
• salami
• sav
• saveloy
• smokie
• snag
• Vienna sausage
• white pudding
• wiener
• wienerwurst
• wors
• wurst

 

Coordinate terms

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

Related terms

• hide the sausage
• how the sausage gets made
• sausage dog
• sausage fest
• sausage meat
• sausage party
• sausage roll
• sausage tree

 

Translations

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: 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
• 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 (şujıq), шұжықша (şujıqşa)
• 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 f
• Macedonian: ко́лбас m (kólbas)
• Malay: sosej
• Maltese: salami m, supresatt m
• Maori: tōtiti
• Marathi: सॉसेज (sŏsej)
• Marshallese: jo̧jej
• Mongolian: хиам (mn) (khiam)
• 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: gehæcca m, mearhhæccel n
• 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, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. 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

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

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

References

• sausage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• List of sausages at Wikipedia

Anagrams

• assuage