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adjika

adjika noun: a hot, spicy but subtly flavoured paste often used to flavour food, mainly in the Caucasian regions of Abkhazia and Samegrelo.

adjika: a hot, spicy but subtly flavoured paste often used to flavour food, mainly in the Caucasian regions...
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Noun

adjika (uncountable)

  1. A hot, spicy but subtly flavoured paste often used to flavour food, mainly in the Caucasian regions of Abkhazia and Samegrelo.

Forms of adjika

alternative formadzhika
alternative formajika

Origin of adjika

Borrowed from Russian аджи́ка (adžíka), from Abkhaz аџьыка (adžəkʼa); see there for more.

Questions about adjika

What does adjika mean?
Adjika means a hot, spicy but subtly flavoured paste often used to flavour food, mainly in the Caucasian regions of Abkhazia and Samegrelo.
What part of speech is adjika?
Adjika is a noun.

Words near adjika in the dictionary

  1. adjenda
  2. Adjiedj
  3. adjiger
  4. adjigers
  5. adjigo
  6. adjika
  7. adjoin
  8. adjoinant
  9. adjoined
  10. adjoinedly
  11. adjoineth

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