sernik

See also: Sernik

English

Sernik with raisins

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Polish sernik.

Noun

sernik (countable and uncountable, plural serniks)

1. A baked Polish type of cheesecake that uses twaróg and is based more on eggs and butter, without cream or sour cream.
   • 2008 October 2, Tony Naylor, “Top 10 budget places to eat in Manchester”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 October 2015:

     The Kitchen's homemade desserts, such as its excellent chocolate cake or almond sernik (a Polish cheesecake), are worth stretching the budget for, too.

   • 2011 February 2, Alfred Hickling, “Quicksand – review”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 February 2021:

     She is now the first port of call for newcomers, welcoming them with a slice of sernik and a hard dose of reality.

   • 2014 July 29, Timothy G. Roufs, Kathleen Smyth Roufs, “Poland”, in Sweet Treats around the World: An Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, pages 271–272:

     Poles enjoy sweets that reflect Austrian and Czech influence—strudels, sweet breads, and serniks (cheesecakes).

   • 2025 October 14, Laurel Kratochvila, “Viennese Cheesecake: Sernik Wiedeński”, in Dobre Dobre: Baking from Poland and Beyond, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN:

     Suddenly a man with whom I’d only drunk the Frenchest of wine around tables spread with the Frenchest of cheeses was showing off a recipe for a different kind of cheese—sweet sernik, his grandmother’s cheesecake, simple and plain, translated to French and adapted to the available fresh French cheeses for her family.

Further reading

• cheesecake § Europe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Etymology

From dialectal Russian се́рник (sérnik). Compare Ukrainian сірни́к (sirnýk). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

sernik

1. match

Declension

Declension of sernik

	singular	plural
nominative	sernik	sernikler
genitive	sernikniñ	serniklerniñ
dative	sernikke	serniklerge
accusative	sernikni	serniklerni
locative	sernikte	serniklerde
ablative	sernikten	serniklerden

References

• “sernik”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Polish

sernik

Etymology

From ser +‎ -nik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛr.ɲik/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛrɲik
• Syllabification: ser‧nik
• Homophone: Sernik

Noun

sernik m animal or m inan (diminutive serniczek, related adjective sernikowy)

1. (countable) cheesecake (pie made of sweetened and flavored cottage cheese or cream cheese, eggs, and milk on a crunchy base)

   Synonyms: serowiec, serownik

   Hypernym: ciasto

Declension

Declension of sernik

	singular	plural
nominative	sernik	serniki
genitive	sernika	serników
dative	sernikowi	sernikom
accusative	sernika/sernik	serniki
instrumental	sernikiem	sernikami
locative	serniku	sernikach
vocative	serniku	serniki

Descendants

• → English: sernik

Noun

sernik m inan

1. (uncountable) cheese room (room designed to dry cheese in the process of its traditional production)

   Hypernym: pomieszczenie

2. (uncountable) casein (protein present in both milk and in the seeds of leguminous plants)

   Synonym: kazeina

   Hypernym: białko

Declension

Declension of sernik

	singular
nominative	sernik
genitive	sernika
dative	sernikowi
accusative	sernik
instrumental	sernikiem
locative	serniku
vocative	serniku

Further reading

• sernik in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sernik in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• sernik in PWN's encyclopedia