Gołąbki (Polish pronunciation: [ɡɔˈwɔmpki] ⓘ) is the Polish name of a dish popular in cuisines of Central Europe, made from boiled cabbage leaves wrapped around a filling of minced pork or beef, chopped onions, and rice and/or kasza.

Max Vasmer accepts this as the origin of the word, stating that the dish was so named due to similarity in shape.

The Polish linguist Marek Stachowski finds this theory semantically dubious.

He instead proposes an Oriental borrowing, pointing out that a similar dish, aside from Eastern Europe, is known in the Levant and Central Asia.

[1][2][4] Similar variations are called holubky (Czech, Slovak), sarmale (Romanian), töltött káposzta (Hungarian), holubtsi (Ukrainian), golubtsy (Russian), balandėliai (Lithuanian), Kohlrouladen (German) or kåldolmar (Sweden, from the Turkish dolma).