Etymology

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Today it means: A kind of borscht made with sorrel (or occasionally lemongrass). Full definition →

Yiddish שטשאַוו ← Polish szczaw
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The story

  1. Polish · derived fromszczaw
  2. Yiddish · derived fromשטשאַוו
  3. English todayschav

From Yiddish שטשאַוו (shtshav), from Polish szczaw.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.