kofte
Definitions
n. Persian meatballs popular across the Middle East.
Example Sentences
"On Shabbat the family typically ate zaban (beef tongue), kofte and tokhmemorgh and gojeh (eggs cooked in tomato sauce and fried onions)." (Sephardic Heritage Cookbook: Ottoman, Persian, Moroccan, Egyptian Recipes and More by Sephardic Temple Or Chadash Sisterhood)
Languages of Origin
- Persian
Etymology
P کوفته, lit. 'to pound, grind'
- Persian: Jews with recent ancestry in Iran
- 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
kefta, kefte, kufte, koofte
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