Etymology

dalieba

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Today it means: A Chinese bread based on Russian rye bread, generally available in northeastern China. Full definition →

Mandarin 大列巴 ← Russian хлеб
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The story

  1. Russian · derived fromхлеб“bread”
  2. Mandarin · borrowed from大列巴
  3. English todaydalieba

Borrowed from Mandarin 大列巴 (dàlièbā), from 大 (dà, “big”) + 列巴 (lièbā, “bread”, Harbin dialect), the latter from Russian хлеб (xleb, “bread”).

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