kishke

Meaning

Noun

• A dish made from stuffed intestine.
• Intestines, guts.

Related

Similar words

• blood pudding, blood sausage
• derma, stuffed derma, stuffed kishke
• stomach, gut, guts

Origin

• Attested in English since the late 1930s, from Yiddish קישקע, from Slavic—Polish kiszka, Russian кишка́, or Ukrainian ки́шка. Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *kyša, *kyšьka. Related to Sanskrit कोष्ठ and possibly Ancient Greek κύστις.