tantuni
tantuni noun: a type of street food originating from Mersin consisting of stir-fried chopped beef or lamb, onions, peppers, tomatoes, and spices in pita or yufka bread.
Noun
tantuni (countable and uncountable, plural tantunis)
- A type of street food originating from Mersin consisting of stir-fried chopped beef or lamb, onions, peppers, tomatoes, and spices in pita or yufka bread.
- Just before 2 p.m., we entered Neco Tantuni, a one-room restaurant in Enfield that specializes in tantuni (meat fried in cottonseed oil, garnished with tomatoes, parsley, and onion, and rolled up in a dürüm wrap), a street food from Mersin, in southern Turkey.2023 March 8, Sam Knight, “The Writer Changing How London Thinks About Its Food”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2023
Forms of tantuni
| plural | tantunis |
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Origin of tantuni
Borrowed from Turkish tantuni.
Questions about tantuni
- What does tantuni mean?
- Tantuni means a type of street food originating from Mersin consisting of stir-fried chopped beef or lamb, onions, peppers, tomatoes, and spices in pita or yufka bread.
- What part of speech is tantuni?
- Tantuni is a noun.
- What is the plural of tantuni?
- The plural of tantuni is tantunis.
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