pirog

pirog noun: a baked case of dough with a sweet or savoury filling, popular in Eastern Europe.

Noun

pirog (countable and uncountable, plural pirogs or pirogi or pirogen or pirogn)

A baked case of dough with a sweet or savoury filling, popular in Eastern Europe.
- On such a day it was the custom, some sixty years ago, to bake several immense pirogs of cake dough; one of these pirogs was stuffed with hard-boiled eggs and sometimes also with kasha, while the others had no fillings; it was these latter that were sent to various relatives as a sign of affection.1933, Nina Nikolaevna Selivanova, Dining & Wining in Old Russia, page 90
- At the festival one can take chai sweetened with raspberry preserves or honey as they did in the old days and with the chai selected from an assortment of tantalizing delicacies including rum and honey babas, vareneky,^([sic – meaning vareniki]) poppyseed roll, piroshki, blini, apple pirog, hvorost...1978 October 5, “Samovars of tea, Russian rye bread and homemades are lures to festival”, in The Sun, final edition, volume 283, number 122, Baltimore, Md., →ISSN, →OCLC, page D9, column 1

Pirog (plural Pirogs)

Borrowed from Russian пиро́г (piróg). Doublet of pierog/pieróg. For the plurals ending in n, see Yiddish פּיראָג (pirog).

Both from Polish Piróg and Russian Пирог (Pirog)

What does pirog mean?: Pirog means a baked case of dough with a sweet or savoury filling, popular in Eastern Europe.
What part of speech is pirog?: Pirog can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of pirog?: The plural of pirog is pirogs.

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