kurabiye
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A cookie, particularly a sweet cookie (originally Middle Eastern, now also Turkish, Greek and Albanian), often made with almonds or hazelnuts.
Example Sentences
- "'What a kurabiye, what a biscuit! Ha? Aren't you?' Gertjie freezes. Delican does the same, and they stay poised like this, reared like animals."
- "[…] they tend to be given as gifts as well[,] hence one is usually eating someone else's kurabiyes and not one's own. The word itself is Arabic, as is the basic recipe though it has passed into the kitchen of Turks, Greeks, Armenians and Jews."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
kurabiyes (plural)
kurabie (alternative)
ghorayebah (alternative)
ghraybeh (alternative)
kourabiedes (alternative)
kourabiethes (alternative)