gołąbek

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• Rhymes: -ɔmbɛk
• Syllabification: go‧łą‧bek
• Homophone: Gołąbek

From gołąb +‎ -ek.

gołąbek m animal (diminutive gołąbeczek)

1. (often endearing) diminutive of gołąb; pigeon, dove
2. pigeon or dove hatchling

gołąbek m inan (diminutive gołąbeczek)

1. any mushroom of the genus Russula

gołąbek m pers (diminutive gołąbeczek)

1. (endearing) used as a term of endearment
2. (humorous) lovebird (person)

Uncertain.

• Per Vasmer and Sławski: a semantic shift from the diminutive due to the similarity in shape.
• Per Stachowski: finding the above explanation semantically dubious, he instead proposes an Oriental borrowing, pointing out that a similar dish, aside from Eastern Europe, is known in the Levant and Central Asia. He points to Persian کلم (kalam, “cabbage”) or کلم پیچ (kalam pič, “cabbage roll”) – possibly through a Turkic language or Old Armenian կաղամբ (kałamb, “cabbage”) as possible sources, but remains reserved. The word would have later been altered by folk etymology.^[1]

gołąbek m inan (diminutive gołąbeczek)

1. piece of gołąbki
2. (in the plural) gołąbki, cabbage roll (traditional Polish dish)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gołąbek f

1. genitive plural of gołąbka

• gołąbek in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• gołąbek in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Hieronim Łopaciński (1892) “gołąbki”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 198