palinka
noun
palinka is a noun meaning “A traditional Hungarian fruit brandy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-L-I-N-K-A, and it appears about once in every 71 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of palinka is pálinkas.
What does palinka mean?
noun
- 1
A traditional Hungarian fruit brandy.
noun
- 1
A traditional fruit brandy in the Carpathian Basin, known under several names, and invented in the Middle Ages.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of palinka
- pálinkas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is palinka?
Palinka appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does palinka come from?
From Hungarian pálinka.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).