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The traditional Romanian and Moldovan colac is a braided bread, typically made for special occasions or holidays, such as Christmas, Easter, weddings, and funerals. [29] It is a traditional custom of Romanian rural society, on Christmas Eve, to gather in groups, to go in different houses and to sing colinde, traditional Christmas carols. In ...
Mămăligă (Romanian pronunciation: [məməˈliɡə] ⓘ;) is a polenta made out of yellow maize flour, traditional in Romania, Moldova, south-west regions of Ukraine and among Poles in Ukraine, the Black Sea regions of Georgia and Turkey, and Thessaly and Phthiotis, as well as in Bulgaria and in Greece. [3]
The extent of this borrowing is such that some scholars once mistakenly viewed Romanian as a Slavic language. [32] The influence of Romania's Slavic neighbors on the language continued. The Russian influence was intensified in Bessarabia after it was handed over [33] to the Russian Empire and becoming a Soviet Republic. Russian was used in ...
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Covrigi is the plural form of the Romanian word covrig. [1] The word kovrig is a loanword from the Old Bulgarian kovrigъ. [1] [2] [3] Cognate words are found in other Slavic languages, e.g. Russian kovriga (коврига) meaning "round bread" or korovai. [2] The Old East Slavic kovriga is mentioned in the Primary Chronicle under year 1074.
Commonalities can be found with German cuisine, Hungarian cuisine and Slavic cuisine. [11] The involvement of Austria, Hungary and Italy in the Balkans led to the introduction of breaded-meat dishes and goulash, as well as an emphasis on seafood. [8] The influence of Persian cuisine is shown by the use of yoghurt in meat dishes. [12]
Bread and salt (Bulgarian: хляб и сол, romanized: hlyab i sol) is a traditional Bulgarian custom expressing hospitality, showing that the guest is welcomed. The bread and salt is commonly presented to guests by a woman. Bulgarians usually make a certain type of bread for this occasion called pogacha, which is flat, fancy, and decorated.
The Old English word for bread was hlaf (hlaifs in Gothic: modern English loaf) which appears to be the oldest Teutonic name. [1] Old High German hleib [2] and modern German Laib derive from this Proto-Germanic word, which was borrowed into some Slavic (Czech: chléb, Polish: bochen chleba, Russian: khleb) and Finnic (Finnish: leipä, Estonian: leib) languages as well.