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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A beet soup served hot or cold, usually with sour cream.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A beetroot/beet soup that can be served hot or cold, usually with sour cream.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. a Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation, and often served with sour cream. Also, as used in the U.S., a sour cabbage soup, called in Russian shchi.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation

Etymologies

  1. 1884 or 1808. Yiddish באָרשט (borsht), from Russian or Ukrainian борщ (boršč). (Wiktionary)
  2. Yiddish borsht, from Russian borshch, cow parsnip (the original base of the soup), borscht. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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