boyos
Definitions
n. Spinach and cheese pastries.
Example Sentences
"After the boyos were baked, we all gathered in the beautiful Spanish courtyard of the Sephardic House Hotel, the SEC Campus in the Old City and enjoyed the flaky, cheesy, yummy fruits of our labor." (source)
"If serving a lunch on Shabbat with salad, huevos haminados (hardboiled eggs), fish, boyos (spinach pastries), fruit and a sweet, I think about 2 borekas per person is a good way to count." (Sephardic Heritage Cookbook: Ottoman, Persian, Moroccan, Egyptian Recipes and More by Sephardic Temple Or Chadash Sisterhood)
Languages of Origin
- Ladino
Etymology
boyos
- Ottoman Sephardim: Jews with ancestry in Spain and, post-expulsion, in Turkey, Greece, and other parts of the Ottoman Empire
- North America
- None
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Alternative Spellings
boios
Notes
Sometimes called bulemas.
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