pretzel

Etymology
From dialectal, a variant of standard , from , from , diminutive of , ; named for the appearance of folded arms.

Noun

 * 1)  A toasted bread or cracker usually in the shape of a loose knot.
 * 2)  Anything that is knotted, twisted, or tangled.

Translations

 * Armenian: բրեցել
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: krakeno, breco
 * Finnish:, viipurinrinkeli
 * French:
 * German:, Pretzel,
 * Hebrew: בייגלה
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ingrian: krinkeli
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: プレッツェル
 * Korean: 브레첼, 프레첼
 * Latin: brecellus
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: перек
 * Plautdietsch: Kjrinjel
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: pretzel
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , пре́цель,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пѐре̄ц
 * Roman:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: pretseli
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: бре́цель
 * Yiddish: בייגעלע, פּרעצל


 * Finnish: ,
 * Russian:, ,

Verb

 * 1)  To bend, twist, or contort.

Etymology
From dialectal, a variant of standard.

Noun

 * 1)  toasted bread or cracker in the shape of a knot

Etymology
Derived from.

Noun

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