Word.ws English Dictionary

lapsha

lapsha noun: a type of pasta noodles similar to vermicelli in Russian cuisine.

lapsha: a type of pasta noodles similar to vermicelli in Russian cuisine
Image: Schekinov Alexey Victorovich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

lapsha (uncountable)

  1. A type of pasta noodles similar to vermicelli in Russian cuisine.
    • Knead, roll out very thin, let dry a little, then cut into the desired shape (long, thin strips if for lapsha), and cook in boiling salted water. Then, if lapsha, drain all water off and drop into the bouillon for which it is intended.1923, Alexandre Gagarine, transl., The Borzoi Cook Book, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →OCLC, page 62
    • A lot of our own traditional food is served and this is what I would choose to have. I don't mind any other Canadian food, but I'd still like to have some of our good old borshch, pirogi and many other things that our people are making. They're so delicious and good to have once in awhile;^([sic])...1975 August 22, Koozma J. Tarasoff, quoting a farmer in northeast Saskatchewan, “Borshch, pirogi...and corn flakes”, in Traditional Doukhobor Folkways: An Ethnographic and Biographic Record of...

Examples of lapsha in a sentence

  • They're so delicious and good to have once in awhile;^([sic]) also lapshevnik, lapsha, vareniki and blintsi.1975 August 22, Koozma J. Tarasoff, quoting a farmer in northeast Saskatchewan, “Borshch, pirogi...and corn flakes”, in Traditional...
  • Cover the pot and cook on a low heat until potatoes and lapsha are soft.2014, Elena Aliyev, “Chicken Soup with Lapsha”, in Tastes of My Home, →ISBN, page 37:
  • Various combinations of beef fish and vegetables make the range of lapsha soups quite substantial.2016, Danny Gordon, Elena Bosler-Guseva, “Lapsha”, in The Taste of Central Asia Cookbook, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire: Hertfordshire...

Origin of lapsha

From Russian лапша́ (lapšá).

Questions about lapsha

What does lapsha mean?
Lapsha means a type of pasta noodles similar to vermicelli in Russian cuisine.
How do you use lapsha in a sentence?
They're so delicious and good to have once in awhile;^([sic]) also lapshevnik, lapsha, vareniki and blintsi.
What part of speech is lapsha?
Lapsha is a noun.

Words near lapsha in the dictionary

  1. lapserdaks
  2. lapsers
  3. lapses
  4. lapseth
  5. lapsful
  6. lapsha
  7. lapshevnik
  8. lapsi
  9. lapsibility
  10. lapsible
  11. lapsided

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lapsha (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: “lapsha.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/lapsha. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.