Definitions
n. A meat casserole popular on Pesach.
Example Sentences
"There are many variations of minas throughout the Sephardi world, including beef or lamb minas, dairy or pareve minas with spinach and cheese, roasted eggplant and more." (source)
"I have one cousin who looks forward to megina each year with cranberry sauce on the side. I know, they didn’t have cranberries in Rhodes. That’s how we create new traditions!" (source)
Languages of Origin
- Ladino
Etymology
megina/mina de carne
- 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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megina
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