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tharid

tharid noun: a traditional Arab dish of pieces of bread in a vegetable or meat broth, consumed especially during Ramadan, said to have been the favourite food of the prophet Muhammad.

Noun

tharid (countable and uncountable, plural tharids)

  1. A traditional Arab dish of pieces of bread in a vegetable or meat broth, consumed especially during Ramadan, said to have been the favourite food of the prophet Muhammad.
    • Most modern tharids involve alternating layers of stew and flatbread. [...] In the Middle Ages, very elegant tharids were made.2014, Alan Davidson, The Oxford Companion to Food, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 818

Forms of tharid

pluraltharids

Origin of tharid

Borrowed from Arabic ثَرِيد (ṯarīd). Compare Portuguese açorda.

Questions about tharid

What does tharid mean?
Tharid means a traditional Arab dish of pieces of bread in a vegetable or meat broth, consumed especially during Ramadan, said to have been the favourite food of the prophet Muhammad.
What part of speech is tharid?
Tharid is a noun.
What is the plural of tharid?
The plural of tharid is tharids.

Words near tharid in the dictionary

  1. tharf
  2. tharf-cake
  3. tharf-cakes
  4. Thargelia
  5. Thargelion
  6. tharid
  7. tharids
  8. tharki
  9. tharm
  10. tharms
  11. Tharoijam

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