Word.ws English Dictionary

holishkes

holishkes noun: cabbage rolls, prepared from blanched cabbage leaves wrapped in a parcel-like manner around minced meat and then simmered in tomato sauce.

holishkes: cabbage rolls, prepared from blanched cabbage leaves wrapped in a parcel-like manner around minced...
Image: Yuval hoffman, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

holishkes pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Cabbage rolls, prepared from blanched cabbage leaves wrapped in a parcel-like manner around minced meat and then simmered in tomato sauce.

Origin of holishkes

From Yiddish האָלישקעס (holishkes).

Questions about holishkes

What does holishkes mean?
Holishkes means cabbage rolls, prepared from blanched cabbage leaves wrapped in a parcel-like manner around minced meat and then simmered in tomato sauce.
What part of speech is holishkes?
Holishkes is a noun.

Words near holishkes in the dictionary

  1. holings
  2. holinight
  3. holinights
  4. holins
  5. Holis
  6. holishkes
  7. holism
  8. holisms
  9. holist
  10. Holister
  11. holistic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: holishkes (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “holishkes.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/holishkes. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.