koshary
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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)

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Languages of Origin

  • Arabic / Judeo-Arabic

Etymology

  • كشري, lit. 'food of the rites of the Gods'; unrelated to the word kosher

      • Who Uses This

      • North African: Jews with ancestry in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, or Egypt

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

      • None

      Alternative Spellings

      koshari, kosharee, kushari, kushary, kusharee

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