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pirozhok

pirozhok is the singular of pirozhki.

Meaning of pirozhki

Noun

pirozhki (countable and uncountable, plural pirozhki or pirozhkis)

  1. Small pastries filled with finely chopped meat, vegetables or fruit baked or fried, from eastern European cuisine, or a serving of these.
    • Nica handed Mark a pirazhok.
      Maybe from the extra excitement, maybe because the pirozhki really were delicious, she swallowed them both immediately.2012, Margarita Borkaev, Far Away Run the Roads, Xlibris, page 110
  2. A single such pastry.

Forms of pirozhok

pluralpirozhki
alternative formpiroshok

Origin of pirozhok

Borrowed from Russian пирожо́к (pirožók), diminutive of пиро́г (piróg, “pie”).

Questions about pirozhok

What is pirozhok the singular of?
Pirozhok is the singular of pirozhki.

Words near pirozhok in the dictionary

  1. pirozadil
  2. pirozhki
  3. pirozhkies
  4. pirozhkis
  5. pirozhky
  6. pirozhok
  7. Pirozzi
  8. Pirozzis
  9. pirprofen
  10. pirquinozol
  11. pirquitasite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pirozhok (page history and authors); pirozhki (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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