калач

• кола́чъ (koláč) – Pre-reform orthography (1918)
• кола́ч (koláč) – Pre-reform orthography (1956)

From кола́ч (koláč) (through akanye), from Proto-Slavic *kolačь, a derivation of *kolo (“circle, wheel”). Synchronically analyzable as колесо́ (kolesó) +‎ -ач (-ač). Cognate to Ukrainian кола́ч (koláč), Bulgarian кола́ч (koláč), Serbo-Croatian kòlač, Slovak koláč, Czech koláč, Polish kołacz.

• IPA^(key): [kɐˈɫat͡ɕ]
• Rhymes: -at͡ɕ

калач

кала́ч • (kaláč) m inan (genitive калача́, nominative plural калачи́, genitive plural калаче́й, related adjective кала́чный, diminutive кала́чик)

1. kalach (traditional East Slavic bread shaped like a padlock or a wheel)

• → Kazakh: қалаш (qalaş, “kalach”)
• → Khakas: халас (xalas, “kalach, bread”)
• → Shor: қалаш (qalaş, “bread”)
• → Southern Altai: калаш (kalaš, “bread”)

• кре́ндель (kréndelʹ)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “колач”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Tsyhanenko, H. P. (1989), “калач”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Kyiv: Radjanska shkola, →ISBN