pirozhki
/pɪˈɹɒʒkɪ/noun
pirozhki is a noun meaning “Small pastries filled with finely chopped meat, vegetables or fruit baked or fried, from eastern European cuisine, or a serving of these” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-I-R-O-Z-H-K-I, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pirozhki is pirozhkis.
What does pirozhki mean?
noun
- 1
Small pastries filled with finely chopped meat, vegetables or fruit baked or fried, from eastern European cuisine, or a serving of these.
In the morning the people wished Yefim good-speed; they loaded him with pirozhki for his journey, and they went to their work: and Yefim started on his way.
- 2
A single such pastry.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce pirozhki?
- /pɪˈɹɒʒkɪ/
- /pɪˈɹɒʃkɪ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of pirozhki
- pirozhkis plural
- pirozhok singular
- peroshki
- peroshky
- piroschki
- piroshki
- piroshky
- pirozhky
- pyrizhky
- perieschkje
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is pirozhki?
Pirozhki appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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).
Pirozhki in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense small pastries:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does pirozhki come from?
From Russian пирожки́ (pirožkí), plural of пирожо́к (pirožók), which is in turn a diminutive of пиро́г (piróg, “pie”). (In Russian Mennonite communities, borrowed first into Plautdietsch in Russia and Ukraine, and then taken from Plautdietsch into English in the US.) Doublet of pyrizhky and perieschkje.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).