Certain types of gingersnap or gingerbread, traditionally eaten around Christmas, often in the shape of a heart, man, woman, pig, star or similar.
çekim: çoğul pepparkakor · tamlayan pepparkakas
köken: From peppar (“pepper”) + kaka (“cookie”), since pepper was originally an ingredient in the cookies. Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål pepperkake, Norwegian Nynorsk peparkake and Danish peberkage.
From 13th-century Middle High German lebekuoche. The second element is clearly Kuchen; the origin of the first element is uncertain: it might come from the same root as Laib (“loaf”), or from Latin libum (“flat bread”) (for the unexpected vowel, compare Middle High German lebezelte, which existed alongside the form with the expected vowel, libenzelte), though both theories present difficulties.