baranka
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "How comical we should have looked on a country road in old England, as we jogged along, almost buried in our cushions, with our eggs in our fingers and the salt in a paper receptacle; and ever and anon stretching out our arms at full length for the baranki, which depended in graceful festoons over our heads!"
- "I had bought some barankas—dry Russian biscuits—en route."
- "Outside the baker’s shop, beside his printed name—printed name, by the way, often quite unintelligible to himself—is a very lively picture of white loaves and rolls, biscuits, krendels, baranki, cakes."
- "Soviet machines used in making Russian national food, such as delicious patties stuffed with meat, fruit or cottage cheese, pelmeni, dumplings, boubliks and barankas, are popular in many countries. Soviet sorts of baranka-type articles, such as sushkas, can be kept for many months without going stale."
- "He had received a food parcel earlier, and so he ate only butter and ring-shaped rolls, baranki, and he quit eating black bread a week before his strike."
- "Huge samovars are kept on the boil and there are boubliks and barankas (thick, ring-shaped rolls)."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃ebʰi Proto-Balto-Slavic *ab Proto-Slavic *o(b) Russian об- (ob-) Proto-Indo-European *wōr-der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *wārīˀtei Proto-Slavic *varìti Russian вари́ть (varítʹ) Russian обвари́ть (obvarítʹ) Russian -аный (-anyj) Proto-Indo-European *-(e-)nós Proto-Slavic *-ěnъ Russian -ано́й (-anój) Proto-Slavic *-ьka Proto-Indo-European *-keh₂der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *-kāˀ Proto-Slavic *-ъka Russian -ка (-ka) Russian -а́нка (-ánka) Russian бара́нка (baránka)bor. English baranka Borrowed from Russian бара́нка (baránka).