pączek

Unadapted borrowing from Polish pączek, diminutive of pąk (“bud”). Doublet of ponchik.

pączek (plural pączki)

1. singular of pączki

From pąk +‎ -ek.

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• Rhymes: -ɔnt͡ʂɛk
• Syllabification: pą‧czek

pączek m inan (diminutive pączuszek or pączuś, related adjective pączkowy)

1. diminutive of pąk
2. doughnut (deep-fried piece of dough or batter)
4. paczki (traditional Polish doughnut)
6. (botany, horticulture) bud (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)

   Synonym: pąk

7. (biology) bud (small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism)

• → Belarusian: по́нчык (pónčyk)
• → English: paczek; (via plural) paczki
• → German: Pączki (via plural)
• → Latvian: pončiks
• → Lithuanian: (proscribed) pončka, pončkas
• → Russian: по́нчик (pónčik), по́нчикъ (pónčik) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
  • → Armenian: պոնչիկ (pončʻik)
  • → Azerbaijani: ponçik
  • → English: ponchik
  • → Georgian: პონჩიკი (ṗončiḳi)
  • → Turkish: ponçik
  • → Yiddish: פּאָנטשיק (pontshik)
• → Ukrainian: по́нчик (pónčyk)

• pączek in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pączek in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Aleksander Saloni (1899) “ponczki”, in “Lud wiejski w okolicy Przeworska”, in M. Arct, E. Lubowski, editors, Wisła : miesięcznik gieograficzno-etnograficzny (in Polish), volume 13, Warsaw: Artur Gruszecki, page 243