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

    • Who Uses This

      • Ottoman Sephardim: Jews with ancestry in Spain and, post-expulsion, in Turkey, Greece, and other parts of the Ottoman Empire

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

      • None

      Alternative Spellings

      boios

Notes

  • Sometimes called bulemas.

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