Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
< /kɪlˈbɑ si, kil-/.
- a smoked sausage of coarsely chopped beef and pork, flavored with garlic and spices.
noun
- a traditional garlic sausage of Eastern European origin
1951, from Polish kiełbasa “sausage” (Russian kolbasa, Serbo-Croatian kobasica); perhaps from Turkish kulbasti, “grilled cutlet,” literally “pressed on the ashes.” Or perhaps, via Jewish butchers, from Hebrew kolbasar “all kinds of meat.”