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moroheiya

moroheiya is the alternative form of mulukhiyah.

Meaning of mulukhiyah

Noun

mulukhiyah (uncountable)

  1. Corchorus species, particularly jute mallow (Corchorus olitorius), used as a vegetable in Middle Eastern and North African cuisine, which can be boiled into a mucilaginous broth.
    • Limya is preparing mulukhiyah this morning, something she ate nearly every day when she lived in Sudan. It's a stew made of lamb and the mulukhiyah leaf, also known as mallow, popular in Middle Eastern cooking.2011, Lynne Christy Anderson, Breaking Bread: Recipes and Stories from Immigrant Kitchens
  2. The mucilaginous broth made by boiling this plant.

Origin of moroheiya

Borrowed from Japanese モロヘイヤ (moroheiya), from Egyptian Arabic ملوخية.

Questions about moroheiya

What is moroheiya the alternative form of?
Moroheiya is the alternative form of mulukhiyah.

Words near moroheiya in the dictionary

  1. Moroeni
  2. morogake
  3. morogakes
  4. Morogoro
  5. Morohashi
  6. moroheiya
  7. Moroka
  8. Moroland
  9. morolimumab
  10. morology
  11. moron

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Adapted from Wiktionary: moroheiya (page history and authors); mulukhiyah (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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