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polish sausage

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kiel⋅ba⋅sa

[kil-bah-suh, keel-]
–noun, plural -sas, -sy [-see] .
a smoked sausage of coarsely chopped beef and pork, flavored with garlic and spices.
Also called Polish sausage.


Origin:
1950–55; < Pol kiełbasa, sausage, c. Czech klobása, dial. Serbo-Croatian klobasa, Bulg kŭlbása, Russ kolbasá; ulterior orig. obscure
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kielbasa 
1953, from Pol. kielbasa "sausage" (Rus. kolbasa), perhaps from Turk. kulbasti, "grilled cutlet," lit. "pressed on the ashes."
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