bublik

bublik

Bublik (also booblik or bublyk; Russian: бублик, romanized: búblik, plural: bubliki; Ukrainian: бублик, romanized: búblyk) is a traditional Eastern European bread roll. Similar to the Polish bagel, it is a ring of yeast-leavened wheat dough that has been boiled in water for a short time before baking.

Bublik stems from Old East Slavic бубьлъ (bubl), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *bǫbьlь, from which Polish bąbel, Czech boubel and Slovak bublina also originated. All these words mean "bubble".