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kubaneh

kubaneh noun: a traditional Yemenite Jewish pull-apart yeast bread.

Noun

kubaneh (uncountable)

  1. A traditional Yemenite Jewish pull-apart yeast bread.
    • As a child, he made kubaneh, a Yemenite-Jewish yeast bread, with his mother, whose father was a baker for the Moroccan king.2015 October 22, Ligaya Mishan, “At Timna, the Middle East Visits the East Village”, in New York Times

Origin of kubaneh

Borrowed from Hebrew כובאנה, from Yemeni Arabic كبانة.

Questions about kubaneh

What does kubaneh mean?
Kubaneh means a traditional Yemenite Jewish pull-apart yeast bread.
What part of speech is kubaneh?
Kubaneh is a noun.

Words near kubaneh in the dictionary

  1. Kubackis
  2. Kubala
  3. Kubalas
  4. Kuban
  5. Kuban'
  6. kubaneh
  7. Kubang Pasu
  8. Kubango
  9. kubanka
  10. kubankas
  11. Kubans

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