pirozhki

Meaning

Noun

• Small pastries filled with finely chopped meat, vegetables or fruit baked or fried, from eastern European cuisine, or a serving of these.
• A single such pastry.
• Plural of pirozhok

Origin

• From Russian пирожки́, plural of пирожо́к, which is in turn a diminutive of пиро́г. (In Russian Mennonite communities, borrowed first into Plautdietsch in Russia and Ukraine, and then taken from Plautdietsch into English in the US.)