kartofel

Borrowed from German Kartoffel, from older Tartuffel or Tartüffel, from Italian tartufolo, diminutive of tartufo, from Medieval Latin *territūberum or Latin terrae tūber.

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• Rhymes: -ɔfɛl
• Syllabification: kar‧to‧fel

kartofel m inan (diminutive kartofelek, augmentative kartoflisko)

1. (somewhat regional or dialectal, Kuyavia, Near Masovian) potato

   Synonyms: ziemniak, pyra

2. (slang) nose

   Synonym: ogór

3. (colloquial, sports) chip shot (an easy goal)

   Synonyms: babol, szmata

In the Near Masovian dialect, this term is preferred, and ziemniak is almost never used.

• kartofel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kartofel in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Oskar Kolberg (1867) “pantówka”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 274
• Zygmunt Wasilewski (1889) “kartofle”, in Jagodne: wieś w powiecie łukowskim, gminie Dąbie: zarys etnograficzny (in Polish), Warsaw: M. Arct, page 241