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borscht

/bɔɹʃt/UK/bɔːʃt/

borscht noun: a beetroot soup that can be served hot or cold, usually with sour cream, called borsch in its countries of origin.

borscht: a beetroot soup that can be served hot or cold, usually with sour cream, called borsch in its...
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Noun (1)

borscht (countable and uncountable, plural borschts)

  1. A beetroot soup that can be served hot or cold, usually with sour cream, called borsch in its countries of origin.
  2. Any similar sour soup made of other ingredients such as sorrel, cabbage, hogweed

Noun (2) capitalized: BORSCHT

BORSCHT (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of battery feed, overvoltage protection, ringing, signalling, coding, hybrid, test (“the set of functions performed by a subscriber line interface circuit (SLIC) in the line card of a telecommunication system providing plain old telephone service”).

borscht meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Arabic and Indonesian

borscht in Hindi

beetroot soup
बोर्स्ट borsṭ, बोर्ष्ट borṣṭ

borscht in Bengali

beetroot soup
বোর্শ bōrśo

borscht in Arabic

beetroot soup
بُرْش borš

borscht in Indonesian

beetroot soup
borsch
More languagesFewer languages
borscht in Persian
برش borš

Examples of borscht in a sentence

  • Pyrahi, voreniki, nalesniki, kalachi and borscht are all made in-house using the freshest local ingredients.
  • Join Russian-born Nina Scroggins and explore delicious dishes including borscht, varenkies and kotletas.
  • Menu will consist of borscht, chicken Kiev, beef stroganoff and morozhenoe.

All 14 example sentences with borscht

Synonyms of borscht

Forms of borscht

pluralborschts
alternative formborsch
alternative formborschtsch
alternative formborsh
alternative formborshch
alternative formborsht
alternative formbortsch

Origin of borscht

1884 or 1808. Borrowed from Yiddish באָרשט (borsht), from Russian or Ukrainian борщ (boršč). Doublet of barszcz.

Words formed from borscht

Phrases with borscht

Questions about borscht

What does borscht mean?
Borscht means a beetroot soup that can be served hot or cold, usually with sour cream, called borsch in its countries of origin.
What is borscht in Hindi?
Borscht in Hindi is बोर्स्ट (borsṭ), बोर्ष्ट (borṣṭ). See Borscht meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is borscht?
Borscht is a noun.
How do you pronounce borscht?
Borscht is pronounced /bɔːʃt/ (UK).
What is the plural of borscht?
The plural of borscht is borschts.

Words near borscht in the dictionary

  1. Borsalino
  2. Borsalinos
  3. borsch
  4. borsches
  5. borschs
  6. borscht
  7. borscht belt
  8. Borscht Circuit
  9. borschts
  10. borschtsch
  11. Borsele

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Adapted from Wiktionary: borscht (page history and authors); BORSCHT (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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