kalach
kalach noun: traditional East Slavic bread shaped like a padlock or various kinds of wheels. Other Slavic nations have similar but not identical types of pastry, e.g. Czech or Slovak koláč/koláč, Polish kołacz, Bulgarian колач (kolač), Serbo-Croatian колач/kolač, etc.
Noun
kalach (plural kalaches or kalachs or kalachi)
- Traditional East Slavic bread shaped like a padlock or various kinds of wheels. Other Slavic nations have similar but not identical types of pastry, e.g. Czech or Slovak koláč/koláč, Polish kołacz, Bulgarian колач (kolač), Serbo-Croatian колач/kolač, etc.
- [H]e used to roam about the town with his hands in his pockets, doing nothing, and casting looks at the stalls of the old women who sold kalachs which made them tremble.1892, Vladimir Korolenko, anonymous translator, “Bad Company”, in Antony Lambton, compiler, Bad Company and Other Stories, London; Melbourne, Vic.; New York, N.Y.: Quartet Books, published 1986...
- Her ladyship was reduced to the pitiable choice of yesterday’s croissants or one of the nine different kinds of rolls, milk breads, sweet breads, scones, pancakes, vatrushki, kalachi, ponchiki, rogaliki and bulochki whose delicious, new-baked smell was wafting all over the house.1967, Ira J. Morris, chapter III, in The Troika Belle, London: William Heinemann Ltd, page 16
kalach meaning in Vietnamese
kalach in Vietnamese
- traditional East Slavic bread (or its equivalent)
- bánh ca-lát
Examples of kalach in a sentence
- He came back several times with small loaves of various shapes, kalachs, bubliks, pots of jam, honey and molasses, and cold sausage; […]1984, Vladimir Volkoff, translated by Alan Sheridan, “A Day in the Life of Aleksandr Dmitrich”, in The Set-Up, London: Methuen London Ltd...
- We asked the canteen to lend us a knife for a minute, I cut up all the kalachs and the babkas into thirty-three parts.2018, Grunia Slutzky-Kohn, translated by the David Azrieli Foundation, “The Festival”, in Memories of War, Montreal, Que., →OCLC, page 89:
Forms of kalach
| plural | kalaches |
|---|---|
| plural | kalachs |
| plural | kalachi |
| alternative form | kalatch |
| alternative form | kolach |
Origin of kalach
Transliteration of Russian кала́ч (kaláč) or Ukrainian кала́ч (kaláč), also spelled кола́ч (koláč).
Questions about kalach
- What does kalach mean?
- Kalach means traditional East Slavic bread shaped like a padlock or various kinds of wheels. Other Slavic nations have similar but not identical types of pastry, e.g. Czech or Slovak koláč/koláč, Polish kołacz, Bulgarian колач (kolač), Serbo-Croatian колач/kolač, etc.
- What is kalach in Vietnamese?
- Kalach in Vietnamese is bánh ca-lát. See Kalach meaning in Vietnamese.
- How do you use kalach in a sentence?
- He came back several times with small loaves of various shapes, kalachs, bubliks, pots of jam, honey and molasses, and cold sausage; […]
- What part of speech is kalach?
- Kalach is a noun.
- What is the plural of kalach?
- The plural of kalach is kalaches.
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