Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cheburek

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: chebu-rek
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

singular of chebureki (“a deep-fried turnover filled with ground meat and onions, a national dish of the Crimean Tatars”)

Example Sentences

"The R. Restaurant, a “free style cafe” at 2954 West Devon, covers several bases with the promise of “Middle East, American, and Russian ” cooking — including Georgian-style chiburek dumplings from the Caucasus."
"Many people still believe that chebureks are part of Asian cuisine, originating in Tashkent or Samarkand."
"One café offering Uzbek samsy, manty and lagman and Tatar cheburek was named 'Oriental Flavour', odd given that the 'oriental' places referred to were thousands of miles to the west."

Etymology

From Russian чебуре́к (čeburék).

Origin

Source language: Russian

Word Breakdown

Root: чебуре́к

Inflected Forms

chebureki (plural) chebureks (plural)

Questions

What does cheburek mean?: singular of chebureki (“a deep-fried turnover filled with ground meat and onions, a national dish of the Crimean Tatars”)
Where does cheburek come from?: It is traced to Russian.

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