varenyky

English

Alternative forms

• vareniki
• wareneki, wareniki

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ukrainian варе́ники pl (varényky), singular варе́ник (varényk), and related terms in other languages, e.g. (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Russian варе́ники (varéniki) and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Plautdietsch Wareniki. The Ukrainian term comes from ва́рений (várenyj, “boiled”), from вари́ти (varýty, “to boil, to cook”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old East Slavic варити (variti), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Slavic *variti (“to cook”) + masculine ending -ик (-yk). Compare вар (var, “boiling liquid; cooking, boiling”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Slavic *varъ, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to burn, blacken”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vəˈɹɛniːkiː/

Noun

varenyky

1. Boiled dumplings stuffed with potato, cheese, or other filling; a serving of these; plural of varenyk.

Usage notes

The food has come to English through various cultures and languages, and may be spelled according to its cultural context or linguistic source: varenyky in a Ukrainian context, vareniki in a Russian or Jewish context, or wareniki or wareneki in a Mennonite context.

The name of the dish is often treated as plural only, but the singular form varenyk or varenik is in use. Sometimes back-formed plurals like varenikes, varenikis, or varenykys also appear occasionally.

Synonyms

• perogies, perogy
• potsticker

Translations

a kind of dumplings

• Afrikaans: wareniki
• Belarusian: варэ́нік m (varénik), варэ́нікі m pl (varéniki) (usually plural as a dish)
• Bulgarian: варе́ники m pl (varéniki)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 甜餡餃子／甜馅饺子, 甜馅饺子 (tiánxiàn jiǎozi)

• French: varenyky m pl, vareniki m
• German: Wareniki pl
• Japanese: ヴァレーヌィク (warēniku), ヴァレーヌィクィ (warēniki), ヴァレーニキ (warēniki)
• Korean: 바레니키 (bareniki)
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• Lithuanian: virtiniai pl
• Polish: pierogi (pl) m pl, wareniki m pl
• Portuguese: vareniki m pl
• Russian: варе́ник (ru) m (varénik), варе́ники (ru) m pl (varéniki) (usually plural as a dish)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вареники pl

  Roman: vareniki m pl

• Spanish: varenyky m, varénique m
• Ukrainian: варе́ник (uk) m (varényk), варе́ники m pl (varényky) (usually plural as a dish), пироги́ m pl (pyrohý) (Western Ukraine)

References

• “varenyky” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “варити”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Rudnyc'kyj, Ja. (1962–1982) “вар”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language, Winnipeg, Ottawa: Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences; Ukrainian Mohylo-Mazepian Academy of Sciences; Ukrainian Language Association, →LCCN