pectopah

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noun

A Russian (or Serbian, Mongolian, etc.) restaurant.

OriginRussian рестора́н →
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Meanings

nounpectopah (plural pectopahs)

plural pectopahs

  1. humorousrareA Russian (or Serbian, Mongolian, etc.) restaurant.

    Alex would always comment about the unusually large number of Pectopahs on Gorky Street. I think he thought that it was a chain of shops owned by a company called Pectopah.

    1982, Vernon Johnson Mwaanga, An Extraordinary Life, page 172

Origin

  1. Russianрестора́н“restaurant”
  2. Englishpectopah

Faux Cyrillic reading of Russian рестора́н (restorán, “restaurant”), and the same word in other languages written in Cyrillic. Doublet of restaurant.

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APA

pectopah. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pectopah

MLA

“pectopah.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pectopah. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pectopah,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pectopah.

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