koshary
Definitions
n. A popular Egyptian street food consisting of rice, pasta, and lentils with tomato sauce.
Example Sentences
"Some restaurants specialize in koshary to the exclusion of other dishes, while
others feature it as one item among many." (Sephardic Heritage Cookbook: Ottoman, Persian, Moroccan, Egyptian Recipes and More by Sephardic Temple Or Chadash Sisterhood)
"My grandma would have said that koshary has the 'tata and the mama' in it. Indeed, this dish contains a lot of stuff!" (source)
Languages of Origin
- Arabic / Judeo-Arabic
Etymology
كشري, lit. 'food of the rites of the Gods'; unrelated to the word kosher
- North African: Jews with ancestry in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, or Egypt
- North America
- None
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Alternative Spellings
koshari, kosharee, kushari, kushary, kusharee
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