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mutabbal

mutabbal noun: a Middle Eastern dish of mashed roasted eggplant, tahini, salt, garlic, lemon and often yogurt, similar to baba ganoush but more spicy.

Noun

mutabbal (uncountable)

  1. A Middle Eastern dish of mashed roasted eggplant, tahini, salt, garlic, lemon and often yogurt, similar to baba ganoush but more spicy.

Forms of mutabbal

alternative formmoutabal

Origin of mutabbal

From Arabic متبل (literally “spiced”).

Questions about mutabbal

What does mutabbal mean?
Mutabbal means a Middle Eastern dish of mashed roasted eggplant, tahini, salt, garlic, lemon and often yogurt, similar to baba ganoush but more spicy.
What part of speech is mutabbal?
Mutabbal is a noun.

Words near mutabbal in the dictionary

  1. mut. mut.
  2. mut. mutand.
  3. mut. mutandis
  4. muta
  5. muta-
  6. mutabbal
  7. mutabbaq
  8. mutabilities
  9. mutability
  10. mutable
  11. mutableness

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