kubasa

From Ukrainian ковбаса (kovbasá, “sausage”), a very early Slavic borrowing with no clear antecedent. The Slavic variants point to several reconstructed forms from Proto-Slavic *kъlbasa, *klobasa, *kobasa. It is considered most likely to be borrowed from Turkic language; compare Turkish külbastı (“roasted meat”), from kül (“ash”), from Old Turkic kül, from Proto-Turkic *kül (“ashes”).

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• IPA^(key): /kuːbɒˈsɒ/, /ˈkuːbəsɒ/
• Hyphenation: ku‧ba‧sa

kubasa (countable and uncountable, plural kubasas)

1. (Canada) A smoked pork sausage with garlic, originating in Eastern Europe.

• garlic ring
• garlic sausage
• kielbasa
• kolbassa

• kubie, kubie dog, kubie burger

• “kubasa” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Melʹnyčuk O. S., editor (1982–2012), “ковбаса”, in Etymolohičnyj slovnyk ukrajinsʹkoji movy [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kiev: Naukova Dumka