kofte
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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)

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Languages of Origin

  • Persian

Etymology

  • P کوفته, lit. 'to pound, grind'

      • Who Uses This

      • 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

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

      • None

      Alternative Spellings

      kefta, kefte, kufte, koofte

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