chleb

From Polish chleb. Doublet of khleb and loaf.

chleb (uncountable)

1. (rare) Polish bread.
   • 1997, Noëlle Janaczewska, “Historia”, in Peta Tait, Elizabeth Schafer, editors, Australian Women’s Drama: Texts and Feminisms (Currency Plays), Sydney, N.S.W.: Currency Press, →ISBN, page 280:

     Upstairs at the Polish Club / Among plastic palms and gossip, / While Wujiu Jerzy / Sells kielbasy and chleb—[…]

   • 2000, Tarisa Ann M. Matsumoto, “Zoltan’s Food”, in Shadowgraph and Zoltan’s Food‎^[1], Ames, Ia.: Iowa State University, →DOI, →OCLC, section “Advent of Red”, page 55:

     […] dough for the chleb beaten down with imprints of her fists and knuckles […] the moist ferment staring at her in anticipation of being molded baked buttered into something fantastic succulent artistic slices of chleb […]

   • 2004, Helen McCourt Mentek, “The Wheel of Life”, in Ripples on a Puddle: A Collection of Short Stories, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 228:

     Mountains of chleb teetered on plates.

   • 2008, Polly Courtney, chapter 15, in Poles Apart, Leicester: Matador, →ISBN, page 81:

     In the safety of her bedroom, with a litre of water and a slice of chleb inside her, things felt better again.

   • 2016 July 7, Michel Faber, “Since You Last Visited Sopot”, in Undying: A Love Story, Edinburgh: Canongate Books, →ISBN:

     The diner where the soup was almost free (three zloty, with chleb and margarine) has closed, dumping its coarse clientele into history.

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chleb

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xlěbъ, from Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz. Compare Gothic 𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃 (hlaifs), English loaf, German Laib, Faroese leivur, Latvian klaips, and Finnish leipä.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxlɛp/

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• Rhymes: -ɛp
• Syllabification: chleb

chleb m inan (diminutive chlebek or chlebuś)

1. bread

   kromka chleba ― a slice of bread

   bochenek chleba ― a loaf of bread

   chleb razowy ― whole-meal bread

2. (figuratively) work, job

• → English: chleb

• chleb in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• chleb in Polish dictionaries at PWN