knish 
(kə-nĭsh)
(kə-nĭsh)n.
A piece of dough stuffed with potato, meat, or cheese and baked or fried.
[Yiddish, from Ukrainian knysh and Polish, knysz (Ukranian, from Polish) : dialectal Polish kien, kn-, trunk, stump, bole (akin to Lithuanian kunas, body) + Polish -ysz, n. suff.]