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malabi

malabi noun: a type of Middle Eastern pudding made with milk and rice flour, flavoured with rosewater or other ingredients.

malabi: a type of Middle Eastern pudding made with milk and rice flour, flavoured with rosewater or other...
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Noun

malabi (countable and uncountable, plural malabis)

  1. (Israel) A type of Middle Eastern pudding made with milk and rice flour, flavoured with rosewater or other ingredients.
    • After a Middle Eastern meal, you'd be served something called malabi for dessert. It's a custard flavored with rosewater. It can be made dairy free. Ew. But some people really love it. I, for one, freaking love dairy and don't love rosewater. This dessert looks like a malabi, but tastes so much...2015, Oron, Danielle, author, Modern Israeli Cooking: 100 New Recipes for Traditional Classics, Salem, MA: Page Street Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 186
    • Their boisterousness gives Lia a pretence to isolate Alon from his family and she lures him away with a malabi, leads him to a lonely table by the window.2017, Julian Furman, This Is How We Talk, Glasgow: Freight Books, →ISBN, page 156

Examples of malabi in a sentence

  • After a Middle Eastern meal, you'd be served something called malabi for dessert.2015, Oron, Danielle, author, Modern Israeli Cooking: 100 New Recipes for Traditional Classics, Salem, MA: Page Street Publishing Co....
  • Amber's experience reminded me of when I visited WeWork's flagship space in Tel Aviv and saw a line of people queuing up for free malabi, a rosewater milk pudding common in the Middle East.2020, Noreena Hertz, The Lonely Century: Coming Together in a World That's Pulling Apart, London: Sceptre, →ISBN, page 217:

Forms of malabi

pluralmalabis

Origin of malabi

Borrowed from Hebrew מלבי.

Questions about malabi

What does malabi mean?
Malabi means a type of Middle Eastern pudding made with milk and rice flour, flavoured with rosewater or other ingredients.
How do you use malabi in a sentence?
After a Middle Eastern meal, you'd be served something called malabi for dessert.
What part of speech is malabi?
Malabi is a noun.
What is the plural of malabi?
The plural of malabi is malabis.

Words near malabi in the dictionary

  1. Malabarish
  2. Malabars
  3. malabathron
  4. malabathrum
  5. Malabca
  6. malabi
  7. Malabiga
  8. malabis
  9. Malabo
  10. Malabon
  11. malabsorb

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