borscht

See also: Borscht and BORSCHT

English

borscht

Alternative forms

• borsch, borshch, borsht, borschtsch, bortsch (sometimes considered misspellings)

Etymology

1884 or 1808. Borrowed from Yiddish באָרשט (borsht), from Russian or Ukrainian борщ (boršč). Doublet of barszcz.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɔːʃt/
• IPA^(key): /bɔɹʃt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ʃt

Noun

borscht (countable and uncountable, plural borschts)

1. A beetroot soup that can be served hot or cold, usually with sour cream.
2. Any similar sour soup made of other ingredients such as sorrel, cabbage, hogweed

Synonyms

• barszcz

Derived terms

• cheap as borscht / cheap like borscht
• Borscht Belt

Translations

beetroot soup

• Albanian: borsh m
• Arabic: بُرْش m (borš), بُرْش m (burš)
• Armenian: բորշ (borš)
• Azerbaijani: borş
• Belarusian: боршч m (boršč)
• Bengali: বোর্শ (bōrśo)
• Bulgarian: борш m (borš)
• Carpathian Rusyn: борщ m (boršč)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 羅宋湯／罗宋汤 (lo⁴ sung³ tong¹)

  Mandarin: 羅宋湯／罗宋汤 (zh) (Luósòng-tāng)

• Czech: boršč m
• Danish: borsjtj c
• Dutch: borsjt m, borsjtsj (nl) m, borscht m
• Esperanto: barĉo (eo)
• Estonian: borš (et)
• Finnish: borssi (fi)
• French: bortsch (fr) m, borsch (fr) m
• Georgian: ბორში (borši)
• German: Borschtsch (de) m
• Greek: μπορς (el) (bors)
• Hebrew: חֲמִיצָה (he) f (khamitza)
• Hindi: बोर्स्ट (borsṭ), बोर्ष्ट (borṣṭ)
• Hungarian: borscs (hu)
• Hutterisch: Roen soupen
• Indonesian: borsch
• Italian: boršč m
• Japanese: ボルシチ (ja) (borushichi)
• Kazakh: борщ (borş)
• Korean: 보르시 (ko) (boreusi)
• Kyrgyz: борщ (ky) (borşc)
• Latvian: borščs
• Lithuanian: barščiai
• Macedonian: боршч (mk) m (boršč)
• Mongolian: борщ (boršč)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: borsjtsj c

• Persian: برش (fa) (borš)
• Polish: barszcz (pl) m, barszcz czerwony (pl) m
• Portuguese: borscht m, borsch (pt) m
• Romanian: borș (ro) n
• Russian: борщ (ru) m (boršč)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бо̏ршч m

  Roman: bȍršč (sh) m

• Slovak: boršč m
• Slovene: boršč m
• Spanish: borscht m, borshch m
• Swedish: borsjtj (sv)
• Tajik: борш (borš), карамшӯрбо (karamšürbo)
• Turkish: borş (tr)
• Turkmen: borş (tk)
• Ukrainian: борщ (uk) m (boršč)
• Uzbek: borsh
• Vilamovian: bość
• Yiddish: באָרשט m (borsht)

Anagrams

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