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draniki

draniki is the plural of dranik.

Meaning of dranik

Noun

dranik (plural draniki)

  1. A Belarusian potato pancake.
    • In a viral video that appeared Monday, [Nikolay] Glasovskiy, who lives in Minsk, can be seen donning a cow fur suit, grabbing a dranik – a traditional Eastern European potato pancake - and climbing up to a 25 meter platform. He then plunges down, hitting a tray filled with sour cream, the preferred...2016 November 28, “Biscuit-dunking bungee world record? No problem, Belarusian dips potato pancake in cream mid-air”, in RT, Moscow: TV-Novosti, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2016

Origin of draniki

Borrowed from Belarusian дра́нікі (drániki).

Questions about draniki

What is draniki the plural of?
Draniki is the plural of dranik.

Words near draniki in the dictionary

  1. Draneys
  2. Drangedal
  3. Drangiana
  4. drangway
  5. dranik
  6. draniki
  7. drank
  8. drank and drove
  9. drank down
  10. drank from a firehose
  11. drank from the fire hydrant

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Adapted from Wiktionary: draniki (page history and authors); dranik (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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