What is "paska"

n. 1 (context Canada English) A traditional Ukrainian egg bread, often decorated, used in Easter traditions. 2 (alternative form of paskha English)

Paska can refer to:

• Paska (bread), a traditional Russian and Ukrainian Easter bread
• Paska (band), the Finnish a cappella rock band
• paska, Finnish word meaning "shit"
• Paska, Germany, a municipality in Thuringia, Germany
• An alternative name of the card game Paskahousu
• Choctaw Native American tribe word for bread, used in word pascagoula meaning bread people.

Paska (Ukrainian, Russian Пáска " Easter", ultimately from " Passover") is an Easter bread eaten in the Assyrian–Chaldean–Syriac diaspora, Eastern European countries including Ukraine, south Russia, Romania, Slovakia, Georgia and parts of Bulgaria. It is also eaten in countries with immigrant populations from Eastern Europe such as the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Paska is a Finnish one-man a cappella rock band formed in 1984. Paska is a Finnish word for feces, usually translated as " shit". The band was named such because the idea of the band was to prove that anybody can make music, no matter how "paska" (crappy) he happens to be.

The band consists of Ari "Paska" Peltonen, a radio show host and writer. His show used to air on one of YLE's Finnish national radio channels, where his controversial punchlines and perverted humour was deemed inappropriate, leading to his swift dismissal. Now he is working at Radio Helsinki.

In the 1990s Paska performed and toured abroad a few times, mostly in the United States and Germany.