Definitions

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  • noun Canada A smoked pork sausage with garlic, originating in Eastern Europe.

Etymologies

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From Ukrainian ковбаса (kovbasá, "sausage"), a very early Slavic borrowing with no clear antecedent. The Slavic variants point to several reconstructed forms from Proto-Slavic *kъlbasa, *klobasa, *kobasa. It is considered most likely to be borrowed from Turkic language; compare Turkish külbastı ("roasted meat"), from kül ("ash"), from Old Turkic (Uyghuric) kül, from Proto-Turkic *kül (“ashes”).

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Examples

  • As for the meat issue, I used to be pretty veggie-friendly, but being pregnant brings out the carnivore in me and I just can't help but eat a ring of kubasa as a snack.

    What Day Is It Again? Oh, Right: NOT FRIDAY. 2008

  • Vamwe tinotozovhiringwa nenzara nekumboenda kubasa, otherwise dai zvaibvira hazvo, tek tek nayo ngoma!

    Zimbabwe Telegraph and ZimDaily Forums 2009

  • Kuitira kuti graft rifambe bhoo whether U hate her / him kana arimukadzi it cld be trick coz vakadzi expect too much from sex, bt kana vari boss vechirume u just tell him strait out i dont expect anything just want some funny and u will be ok musi wamunokanyana onosvika kubasa chitupa chiri pahwindo! not only fun mayana and a promotion on top hapana chemahara shamwari he has to cough up something

    Zimbabwe Telegraph and ZimDaily Forums 2009

  • As for the meat issue, I used to be pretty veggie-friendly, but being pregnant brings out the carnivore in me and I just can’t help but eat a ring of kubasa as a snack.

    What Day Is It Again? Oh, Right: NOT FRIDAY. | Her Bad Mother 2008

  • i never did and will never do! oh please you used to pamwe kubasa wakasangana nerisina kugezwa

    Zimbabwe Telegraph and ZimDaily Forums 2009

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