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gibanica

gibanica noun: a traditional dish from the Balkans made from filo pastry and white cheese.

Noun

gibanica (uncountable)

  1. A traditional dish from the Balkans made from filo pastry and white cheese.
    • They sat eating gibanica and sardines and drinking some herbal grappa called kadulja.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 976

Origin of gibanica

From Serbo-Croatian gìbanica/гѝбаница, from gíbati/ги́бати (“to sway, rock, swing; fold”), originally meaning "folded pie".

Questions about gibanica

What does gibanica mean?
Gibanica means a traditional dish from the Balkans made from filo pastry and white cheese.
What part of speech is gibanica?
Gibanica is a noun.

Words near gibanica in the dictionary

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  6. gibanica
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