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pirog

name · noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • CMU ARPABET: P ER0 AA1 G Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname of Slavic origin.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

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2

noun

Meaning 2

A baked case of dough with a sweet or savoury filling, popular in Eastern Europe.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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History

Etymology

Both from Polish Piróg and Russian Пирог (Pirog)

Borrowed from Russian пиро́г (piróg). Doublet of pierog/pieróg. For the plurals ending in n, see Yiddish פּיראָג (pirog).

Across languages

Translations

21 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Azerbaijani: piroq — baked good
  • Belarusian: піро́г (piróh) — baked good
  • Bulgarian: пиро́г (piróg) — baked good
  • Estonian: pirukas — baked good
  • Finnish: piirakka — baked good
  • Finnish: keitinpiiras — baked good
  • French: pirog — baked good
  • German: Pirogge — baked good
  • Kashmiri: پیٖروگی (pīrōgī) — baked good
  • Kazakh: пирог (pirog) — baked good
  • Kyrgyz: пирог (pirog) — baked good
  • Latvian: pīrāgs — baked good
  • Lithuanian: pyragas — baked good
  • Polish: pieróg — baked good
  • Russian: пиро́г (piróg) — baked good
  • Russian: пирожо́к (pirožók) — baked good
  • Slovak: piroh — baked good
  • Tajik: пирог (pirog) — baked good
  • Ukrainian: пирі́г (pyríh) — baked good
  • Uzbek: pirog — baked good
  • Yiddish: פּיראָג (pirog) — baked good