pieróg

See also: pierog and Pieróg

English

Alternative forms

• pierog

Etymology

From Polish pieróg. Doublet of pirog.

Noun

pieróg (plural pierogi)

1. Rare form of pierogi.
   • 2010 November 19, Victor Sack, “Pelmeni, perogie, peroshki...”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet):

     That thing certainly does not look anything like a pieróg. To me, it looks like sliced boiled potato.

   • 2014 April, Jenny Bowman, “Delicacy of the north: Pierogies, recently opened in Oak Island, dishes up Polish dumplings to perfection”, in Southport Magazine, volume two, number seven, page 14:

     So what is a pieróg, exactly? (Plural is pierogi or can be pierogies.) Well, it’s essentially a dough dumpling stuffed with savory goodness like potato and cheese or onion, hot sausage, or sauerkraut, to name a few fillings.

   • 2018, Kaitlyn Cammer, “St. Volodymyr’s the Great Ukrainian Catholic Church”, in Utica Proud, volume one, page 30:

     Giving Back to the Community One Pieróg at a Time

   • 2019 September, Geraldine Balut Coleman, “Tekla Klebetnica Thrills Crowds”, in Polish American Journal, volume 108, number 9, section “Celebrating Pierogi”, page 7, column 3:

     But there was also one pieróg version that did not win the popularity contest. It was called pizzowego (pizzarogis), a pieróg filled with a combination of sausage, pepperoni, and cheese, doused with tomato sauce.

   • 2022 April 14, Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, “At this Ukrainian restaurant, dumplings go by many names, but always taste like home”, in The Arizona Republic‎^[1]:

     In the photo she's wearing a green floral headscarf and spooning cherry filling into a pieróg.

Polish

pierogi sense 2

pieróg sense 3

pieróg sense 4

Alternative forms

• pierog

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish piróg, from Proto-Slavic *pirogъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjɛ.ruk/

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• Rhymes: -ɛruk
• Syllabification: pie‧róg
• Homophones: Pieróg, Pierug

Noun

pieróg m inan (diminutive pierożek, related adjective pierogowy)

1. dumpling (ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough)
3. pierogi (square- or crescent-shaped Polish dumpling of unleavened dough, stuffed with sauerkraut, cheese, mashed potatoes, cabbage, onion, meat, or any combination of these, or with a fruit filling)
5. pirog (baked case of dough with a sweet or savoury filling, popular in Eastern Europe)
7. (historical, military) bicorn (two-cornered hat worn by European and American military and naval officers from the 1790s)

   Synonym: bikorn

8. (vulgar) vulva, pudenda (external female sex organs)

   Synonyms: pierożek, srom

Declension

Declension of pieróg

	singular	plural
nominative	pieróg	pierogi
genitive	pieroga	pierogów
dative	pierogowi	pierogom
accusative	pieróg/pieroga	pierogi
instrumental	pierogiem	pierogami
locative	pierogu	pierogach
vocative	pierogu	pierogi

Derived terms

nouns

• pierogarnia
• pierogomat

 

Further reading

• pieróg in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pieróg in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• pieróg in PWN's encyclopedia