List of English words of Polish origin
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This is a list of words used in the English language that were borrowed or derived from the Polish language.
- Babka
- a kind of cake
- Britzka, britska
- a horse-drawn carriage with a rear-facing front seat and a folding top over the back seat
- Intelligentsia
- came into English via Russian language, where it possibly came from Polish language, originally from the Latin word intelligentia
- Horde
- arrived in English via French in the form of horde
- Kasha
- Buckwheat groats, Russian and Ukrainian for "porridge"
- Kielbasa
- kind of sausage
- Mazurka
- kind of dance
- Ogonek
- the diacritic under the Polish letters Ąą and Ęę
- Pirogi
- also Polish pierogi, (plural) dumplings or pies.
- Pirozhki
- (piroshki) small pirogi
- Rendzina
- a type of soil
- Sejm
- a Polish Diet or parliament
- Spruce
- kind of wood, from the Polish z prus ("from Prussia"), because spruce was exported via Royal Prussia as the material for English ships
- Szlachta
- Polish nobility
- Tchotchke
- toys, trinkets (via Yiddish from Russian or Polish)
- Voivodship
- administrative region in Poland
- Zloty
- Polish currency
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See also
- Lists of English words of international origin
- List of words of Russian origin
- The category of words with Polish derivations at Wiktionary, Wikipedia's sister project