| Word | Meaning | Etymology | References |
| Baba/Babka cake | A leavened coffee or rum cake flavored with orange rind, rum, almonds, and raisins | Polish babka, or diminutive of baba | |
| Borscht | Beetroot soup | Polish barszcz | - |
| Bigos | A Polish stew made with meat and cabbage | Polish bigos ← German begossen, or German blei + guss | |
| Britzka | A type of horse-drawn carriage | Polish bryczka, diminutive of bryka | |
| Bryndza | Polish traditional cheese | Polish traditional crumby type cheese | - |
| Intelligentsia | Educated social class | Polish inteligencja | - |
| Kasha | Buckwheat grain porridge type | Polish kasza | - |
| Kabanos | Type of thin dry sausage | Polish kabanos | - |
| Kevlar | Synthetic fiber | From the name of Stephanie Kwolek, Polish scientist | - |
| Kielbasa | A seasoned smoked Polish sausage | Polish kiełbasa ← Turkish kül bassï ← Turkic kül bastï: kül + bastï, from basmaq ; | - |
| Klotski | A sliding block puzzle | Polish klocki, plural of klocek | |
| Konik | A horse breed | Polish konik, diminutive of koń | |
| Krakowiak | Polish national dance | Polish national dance from Krakow | - |
| Krówka | Polish fudge type sweet | Diminutive of krowa, "cow" | - |
| Kujawiak | Polish national dance | From the Polish region of Kujawy | - |
| Makowiec | Type of rolled cake/bread | From Polish mak | - |
| Mazurka | Polish national dance | From the Polish region of Mazowsze | - |
| Mazurka | Type of cake | Polish cake from the Mazowsze region | - |
| Mazurka | Classical music piece created by F.Chopin | Polish mazurek | - |
| Marrowsky | Dated - A spoonerism | A Polish count's surname | |
| Oberek | Polish national dance | Polish oberek | - |
| Ogonek | A hook-shaped diacritic | Polish ogonek ← diminutive of ogon ← Proto-Slavic *ogonŭ : *o-, ob-, + *goniti | |
| Oscypek | Polish traditional smoked cheese | Polish oscypek smoked cheese from the Tatra region | - |
| Pączki | A Polish jam-filled doughnut | Polish pączki, plural of pączek ← diminutive of pąk | |
| Pierogi | A semicircular dumpling of unleavened dough with any of various fillings | Polish pierogi, plural of pieróg ← Russian pirog ← Old Russian pirogŭ, from pirŭ ← Proto-Slavic *pirŭ ← Proto-Indo-European *pō- | |
| Polish notation | Mathematical notation of operators/PN/NPN | Lukasiewicz notation | - |
| Rendzina | Type of soils | From Old Polish rędzic to talk/tell | - |
| Rogal | Polish crescent roll | Polish rogal - from róg, "horn" | - |
| Sejm | Polish diet or parliament | Polish sejm | |
| Solidarnosc | Political movement | Polish solidarność | - |
| Spruce | A type coniferous tree | Polish liet. z Prus, "from Prussia" | - |
| Starka | Aged strong alcohol | Polish stary, "old" | - |
| Zloty | Polish currency | Polish złoty, from złoto ← Proto-Indo-European ghel | |
| Zubr | European bison living in Poland's primeval forest | Polish żubr, European bison | - |
| Żurek | Polish traditional sour type soup | Polish żurek | - |
| Word | Meaning | Etymology | References |
| Hetman | Historical - Polish, Czech or Cossack military leader | Ukrainian гетьман, het'man ← Polish hetman ← Czech hejtman ← dialectical German hötmann, hetmann ← Middle High German houbet + man | |
| Horde | A nomadic tribe; a crowd or swarm | German Horde ← Polish horda ← Ukrainian горда/gorda ← Russian орда ← Mongol or North-West Turkic ordï ← Old Turkic ordu | |
| Gherkin | A small cucumber | Early Modern Dutch gurkijn, diminutive of gurk, aphetic variant of agurk, or possibly via Dutch agurken, plural of agurk, taken to English as singular a gurken, from Dutch agurk, variant of augurk ← German Gurken, plural of Gurk ← Slavic source, i.e. Polish ogórek, partial translation of Byzantine Greek angourion, from diminutive of Late Greek angouros, meaning "small, unripe fruit," from expressive alteration of Greek aōros ← Proto Indo-European | , |
| Nudnick / Nudnik | A bore; a boring person | variant English noodnik ← Yiddish nudne + diminutive suffix -nik, from nudyen ← Slavic, either Russian нудный/''núdnyj, Ukrainian нудний/núdnýj, or Polish nudny ← Old Church Slavonic ноудити/nuditi or нѫдити/nǫditi ← Proto-Slavic *nuda ← Proto-Indo-European *neuti-, from *nau- | |
| Quartz | A hard white or colorless mineral | German Quarz ← dialectical Old Polish kwardy | , |
| Schav, schaf | A sorrel soup | Yiddish שטשאַוו, shtshav ← Polish szczaw | |
| Schlub, shlub | A clumsy, stupid or unattractive person | Yiddish zhlob/zhlub, "yokel", "boor" ← Polish żłób | , |
| Schmatte, shmatte | A rag | Yiddish shmate ← Polish szmata | |
| Schmuck, shmuck | A clumsy or stupid person | Yiddish shmok ← probably Old Polish smok or German Schmuck ; in either case, the German word highly influenced the English spelling. | |
| Uhlan, ulan | A cavalryman | German Uhlan ← Polish ułan ← Turkish oğlan, from oǧul ← Old Turkic | , |
| Vampire | Mythical creature | Polish "wampir, from Proto-Polish "wąpierz", it's the most archaic form of the word, entered English via German "Vampire" in the 18th century. | |
| Vodka | Alcoholic drink | Polish wódka, diminutive of woda'', "water", invented in pagan Poland, word itself was adopted from Russian | - |
| Word | Meaning | Etymology | References |
| Alla polacca | Like a polonaise | Italian alla polacca, "in the Polish manner, Polish style" | |
| Bialy | A flat, round baked roll or bagel topped with onion flakes | Polish bialy ← "white" short for bialystoker, "of Białystok", a town in northeastern Poland | , |
| Cracovian | A mathematical symbol used in cracovian calculus | Polish krakowian ← Cracow, a city in southern Poland, former capital | |
| Cracovienne, krakowiak | A lively Polish folk dance | French cracovienne, "Kraków ", feminine of cracovien, "of Cracow"; Polish krakowiak, "inhabitant of Kraków" | , |
| Crackowe, cracowe, crakow | A long, pointed shoe popular in the 14th-15th centuries | Middle English crakowe ← Cracow, the English name of Kraków | |
| Czech | Of or related to the Czech Republic or its people | Polish Czech, "a Czech or Bohemian man" ← Czech Čech | |
| Mazurka | One of Polish 5 national dances, or a piece of music for such a dance | from Polish mazurka, " the mazurka", accusative of mazurek ← diminutive of Mazur, "inhabitant of Masovia or Masuria", regions in northeastern Poland | ,, |
| Polack | A Pole; formerly a neutral term, now considered offensive | Polish Polak, "Pole" | , |
| Polonaise | Ceremonial, stately, marchlike Polish dance, one of the 5 national dances of Poland,
or a piece of music for such a dance | French polonaise, "Polish ", feminine of polonais, "Polish" | |
| Polonaise | A woman's overdress popular in the 18th century | French polonaise, "Polish ", feminine of polonais, "Polish" | |
| Polonaise | Sprinkled with browned butter and bread crumbs | French sauce a la polonaise, feminine of polonais, "Polish" | , |
| Polonium | Chemical element with atomic number 84 | Medieval Latin Polonia, "Poland" | |
| Polska | A Scandinavian folk dance or a piece of music for such a dance | Swedish polska ← feminine of polsk, "Polish" | |
| Poulaine | a crackowe shoe | Middle French poulaine, "Polish " ← feminine of poulain, "Polish" | |
| Varsoviana, varsovienne | A graceful dance similar to a mazurka | Spanish varsoviana ← feminine of varsoviano; French varsovienne ← feminine of varsovien; both from Medieval Latin varsovianus, "of Warsaw", the capital city of Poland | |