dürüm
/dˈʊɹəm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A traditional Turkish wrap (which is made from lavash or yufka flatbread) that is filled with typical doner kebab ingredients.
Example Sentences
- "Lara says she’s going to get something to eat from the Turkish place on the corner; she asks if she should bring me anything. I ask for a dürüm with everything, except onions."
- "They grabbed the tray with a dürüm and ayran from my bedside table and put it on my lap."
- "Just before 2 p.m., we entered Neco Tantuni, a one-room restaurant in Enfield that specializes in tantuni (meat fried in cottonseed oil, garnished with tomatoes, parsley, and onion, and rolled up in a dürüm wrap), a street food from Mersin, in southern Turkey."
- "If you can't follow a PHP guru's talk, two dürüms might help clear your head and restore your sanity."
Etymology
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.