noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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/pɪˈɹɒʒkɪ/
/pɪˈɹɒʃkɪ/
1
noun
Meaning 1
Small pastries filled with finely chopped meat, vegetables or fruit baked or fried, from eastern European cuisine, or a serving of these.
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
A single such pastry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
3
noun
Meaning 3
small fruit or meat turnover baked or fried
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pirogi, piroshki
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: turnover
History
Etymology
From Russian пирожки́ (pirožkí), plural of пирожо́к (pirožók), which is in turn a diminutive of пиро́г (piróg, “pie”). (In Russian Mennonite communities, borrowed first into Plautdietsch in Russia and Ukraine, and then taken from Plautdietsch into English in the US.) Doublet of pyrizhky and perieschkje.
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Armenian:
կարկանդակ
(karkandak)
— small pastries
Azerbaijani:
pirojok
— small pastries
Belarusian:
піражо́к
(piražók)
— small pastries
Belarusian:
піражкі́
(piražkí)
— small pastries
Chinese Mandarin:
小餡餅 /小馅饼
(xiǎo xiànbǐng)
— small pastries
Chinese Mandarin:
皮羅什基 /皮罗什基
(píluōshíjī)
— small pastries
Finnish:
piirakka
— small pastries
Finnish:
piirakat
— small pastries
French:
pirojki
— small pastries
German:
Pirogge
— small pastries
German:
Piroschki
— small pastries
Greek:
πιροσκί
(piroskí)
— small pastries
Hebrew:
פִּירוֹזְ׳קִי
— small pastries
Hungarian:
pirog
— small pastries
Japanese:
ピロシキ
(piroshiki)
— small pastries
Korean:
피로슈키
(pirosyuki)
— small pastries
Macedonian:
пирошка
(piroška)
— small pastries
Mongolian:
пирожки
(pirožki)
— small pastries
Mongolian:
пирошки
(piroški)
— small pastries
Pannonian Rusyn:
пирожки
(pirožki)
— small pastries