How do you pronounce knish?
What does knish mean?
: a small round or square of dough stuffed with a filling (such as potato) and baked or fried.
What does knish mean in Yiddish?
Noun. 1. knish – (Yiddish) a baked or fried turnover filled with potato or meat or cheese; often eaten as a snack. Yiddish – a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script.
Where did the word knish come from?
History in the United States
Knish (קניש) is a Yiddish word that was derived from the Ukrainian knysh (книш) and Polish knysz. The first knish bakery in America was founded in New York City in 1910.