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pryanik

pryanik noun: a Russian sweet-baked good, traditionally made from flour and honey.

pryanik: a Russian sweet-baked good, traditionally made from flour and honey
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Noun

pryanik (plural pryaniks or pryaniki)

  1. A Russian sweet-baked good, traditionally made from flour and honey.
    • Dip the pryaniki in the glaze while they are still hot.1968, Nina Petrova, “[Cakes] Pryaniki”, in Russian Cookery (Penguin Handbook; 140), Harmondsworth; Baltimore, Md.; Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin Books, →LCCN, page 136
    • MOULDING BOARDS FOR PRYANIKS FROM POSHEKHONYE / The boards for moulding the Russian pryaniks (a kind of gingerbread, made of flour, honey or treacle, and spices), are interesting objects of folk art.1969, Soobshchenii͡a, volumes 30–37, page 74, column 2

Examples of pryanik in a sentence

  • The artists who belonged to the Mir iskusstva (World of Art) group, sought new motifs in folk wood carvings, embroidery, icons, antique carpets, and figured treacle cakes (pryaniks).1987, Ruth Apter-Gabriel, editor, Tradition and Revolution: The Jewish Renaissance in Russian Avant-garde Art, 1912-1928, Israel Museum...
  • Who’ll have some pryaniki with honey, who’ll have cheap ones with molasses!1996, Richard Taruskin, “[Punch into Pierrot (Petrushka)] Shirokaya Maslenitsa: The Grand Shrovetide”, in Stravinsky and the Russian...
  • I will prepare Russian Pryaniks—maybe you call them honey cakes—for dessert and also lemon tarts with blueberry sauce.2000, Colleen Coble, From Russia with Love, Uhrichsville, Oh.: Heartsong Presents, →ISBN, page 71:
  • It is famous for producing three important things: guns, samovars and traditional cakes called pryaniks.2003, Suo, volumes 54–56, page 167:

Forms of pryanik

pluralpryaniks
pluralpryaniki
alternative formprianik

Origin of pryanik

From Russian пря́ник (prjánik).

Questions about pryanik

What does pryanik mean?
Pryanik means a Russian sweet-baked good, traditionally made from flour and honey.
How do you use pryanik in a sentence?
The artists who belonged to the Mir iskusstva (World of Art) group, sought new motifs in folk wood carvings, embroidery, icons, antique carpets, and figured treacle cakes (pryaniks).
What part of speech is pryanik?
Pryanik is a noun.
What is the plural of pryanik?
The plural of pryanik is pryaniks.

Words near pryanik in the dictionary

  1. Prvt.
  2. pry
  3. pry bar
  4. pry bars
  5. pryan
  6. pryanik
  7. pryaniki
  8. pryaniks
  9. pryany
  10. prybar
  11. prybars

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