noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Pronunciation
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UK:/ˈɡuː.læʃ/
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US:/ˈɡuː.lɑːʃ/
rhymes with -æʃ
CMU ARPABET:G UW1 L AA2 SH
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
A stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
Synonym of American chop suey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Midwestern-US, countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: American chop suey
Antonyms: none provided
3
noun
Meaning 3
A style of play in which the cards are not thoroughly shuffled between consecutive deals, so as to make the suits less evenly distributed between the players.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: bridge, games
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
4
noun
Meaning 4
A hodgepodge, mishmash
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
5
noun
Meaning 5
a rich meat stew highly seasoned with paprika
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
From French goulasch, itself from Hungarian gulyás (“herdsman”), an ellipsis of gulyáshús (“herdsman meat”), gulyásétel (“herdsman food”), and/or gulyástokány (“herdsman stew”). First attested in English 1866.
Across languages
Translations
62 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Afrikaans:
goelasj
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Albanian:
gullash
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Arabic:
غُولَاش
(ḡūlāš)
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Armenian:
գուլյաշ
(gulyaš)
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Belarusian:
гуля́ш
(huljáš)
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Bulgarian:
гула́ш
(guláš)
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Carpathian Rusyn:
ґу́ляш
(gúljaš)
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Chinese Mandarin:
古拉什
(gǔlāshí)
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Czech:
guláš
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Danish:
gullasch
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Dutch:
goulash
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Dutch:
goelasj
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Estonian:
guljašš
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Faroese:
gullasj
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Finnish:
gulassi
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
French:
goulash
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
French:
goulache
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Georgian:
გულიაში
(guliaši)
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
German:
Gulasch
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Greek:
γκούλας
(gkoúlas)
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Hebrew:
גולאש \ גּוּלָשׁ
(gúlash)
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Hindi:
गुलाश
(gulāś)
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Hungarian:
paprikás pörkölt (distinct from gulyás)
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Icelandic:
gúllas
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Ido:
gulyasho
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Irish:
gúláis
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Italian:
gulasch
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Italian:
stufato
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Japanese:
グヤーシュ
(guyāshu)
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Japanese:
グーラーシュ
(gūrāshu)
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Kazakh:
гуляш
(guläş)
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Korean:
구야시
(guyasi)
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Kyrgyz:
гуляш
(gulyaş)
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Latvian:
gulašs
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Lithuanian:
guliašas
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Macedonian:
гулаш
(gulaš)
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Norwegian Bokmål:
gulasj
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Norwegian Nynorsk:
gulasj
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Pannonian Rusyn:
ґулаш
(gulaš)
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Iranian Persian:
گویاش
(guyâš)
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Polish:
gulasz
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Portuguese:
goulash
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Portuguese:
gulache
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Portuguese:
gulyás
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Romanian:
gulaș
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Russian:
гуля́ш
(guljáš)
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Serbo-Croatian:
гу̏ла̄ш
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Serbo-Croatian:
gȕlāš
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Slovak:
guláš
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Slovak:
guľáš
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Slovene:
golaž
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Spanish:
gulasch
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Spanish:
goulash
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Swedish:
gulasch
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Thai:
กูยาช
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Turkish:
gulaş
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Ukrainian:
гуля́ш
(huljáš)
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Uzbek:
gulyash
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Welsh:
gwlash
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Yiddish:
גולאַש
(gulash)
— a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
Japanese:
グラッシュ
(gurasshu)
— a style of bridge play