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goulash

noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˈɡuː.læʃ/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • 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

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A hodgepodge, mishmash

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

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.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Hungarian goulash, gulyas

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: stew

Narrower terms: beef goulash, pork-and-veal goulash, porkholt

History

Etymology

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
  • Polish: gulasz — a style of bridge play