sausage

English

Russian sausage making

Etymology

From late (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English sausige, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  saussiche (compare Norman saûciche), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  salsīcia (compare Spanish salchicha, Italian salsiccia), neuter plural of salsīcius (“seasoned with salt”), derivative of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin salsus (“salted”), from sal (“salt”). More at salt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑsɪd͡ʒ/

• Audio (US):

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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?)

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)

• Armenian: երշիկ (hy) (eršik)
• Asturian: salchicha f
• Azerbaijani: kolbasa (az)
• Basque: txistorra
• Belarusian: каўбаса́ f (kaŭbasá)
• Bengali: সসেজ (śośej)
• Breton: silzigenn (br)
• Bulgarian: на́деница f (nádenica)
• Burmese: ဝက်အူချောင်း (my) (wak-uhkyaung:)
• Catalan: salsitxa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 香腸／香肠 (hoeng¹ coeng^4-2), 香肠 (hoeng¹ coeng^4-2)

  Dungan: чонзы (čonzɨ)

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

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

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

  Wu: 香腸／香肠, 香肠 (xian zan)

• Chuvash: кӑлпасси (kălp̬assi)
• Czech: klobása f
• Danish: pølse (da) c
• Dutch: worst (nl) m
• Esperanto: kolbaso (eo)
• Estonian: vorst
• Faroese: pylsa f
• Finnish: makkara (fi)
• French: saucisse (fr) f
• Galician: salchicha (gl) f, longaínza f, chourizo m
• Georgian: ძეხვი (ʒexvi)
• German: Wurst (de) f
• Greek: λουκάνικο (el) n (loukániko)

  Ancient: ἀλλᾶς m (allâs), φύσκη f (phúskē)

• 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 (şūjyq), шұжықша (şūjyqşa)
• Khmer: សាច់ក្រក (sac krɑɑk)
• Korean: 소시지 (ko) (sosiji), 칼파스 (ko) (kalpaseu) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

• Kyrgyz: колбаса (kolbasa), чучук (ky) (cucuk)
• Lao: ໄສ້ອົ່ວ (lo) (sai ʼūa)
• Latin: botulus (la) m, tomāclum n, farcīmen n, hillae f pl, tuccētum n, salsicia f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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) (xiam)
• 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)
• 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
• Welsh: selsigen (cy) f
• West Frisian: woarst
• Yakut: халбаһы (qalbahı)
• 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), 香肠 (hoeng¹ coeng^4-2), 腸仔／肠仔 (coeng^4-2 zai²), 肠仔 (coeng^4-2 zai²)

  Mandarin: 腸兒／肠儿 (zh) (chángr), 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
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} cârnat (ro) m
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} embutido (es) m, ^{(please verify)} chorizo (es)

Verb

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