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harira

harira noun: a thickened, tomato-based North African soup, popular during Ramadan.

Noun

harira (countable and uncountable, plural hariras)

  1. A thickened, tomato-based North African soup, popular during Ramadan.
    • Like most hariras, this Berber version is finished off with a thickening agent to develop the proper velvety texture.2012, Paula Wolfert, The Food of Morocco, A&C Black, →ISBN
    • Every family makes its own version of harira. [...] The only must-have is yeast. This is traditional for harira, giving it some oomph [...]. I've since seen harira recipes with lamb, with chicken, with eggs.2013, Ellen Kanner, Norman Van Aken, Feeding the Hungry Ghost: Life, Faith, and What to Eat for Dinner, New World Library, →ISBN, page 127

Forms of harira

pluralhariras

Origin of harira

Borrowed from Arabic حَرِيرَة (ḥarīra)

Questions about harira

What does harira mean?
Harira means a thickened, tomato-based North African soup, popular during Ramadan.
What part of speech is harira?
Harira is a noun.
What is the plural of harira?
The plural of harira is hariras.

Words near harira in the dictionary

  1. hariolates
  2. hariolating
  3. hariolation
  4. hariolations
  5. Haripur
  6. harira
  7. hariras
  8. Harirud
  9. Haris
  10. harish
  11. Harishchandra

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