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pirog¹

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Borrowed from Russian пиро́г (piróg). Doublet of pierog/pieróg. For the plurals ending in n, see Yiddish פּיראָג (pirog).

noun pirogs · pirogi · pirogen · pirogn

  1. countable, uncountable A baked case of dough with a sweet or savoury filling, popular in Eastern Europe. On such a day it was the custom, some sixty years ago, to bake several immense pirogs of cake dough; one of these pirogs was stuffed with hard-boiled eggs and sometimes also with kasha, while the others had no fillings; it was these latter that were sent to various relatives as a sign of affection.

Pirog²

Where it comes from

Both from Polish Piróg and Russian Пирог (Pirog)

proper noun Pirogs

  1. A surname of Slavic origin.

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noun baked good

Françaispirog
DeutschPirogge
Русскийпиро́г piróg, пирожо́к pirožók

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@misc{pirog_2026,
  title = {pirog},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pirog},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}