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toum

toum noun: a garlic condiment common in the Levant, similar to aioli, made with garlic, salt, olive or vegetable oil, lemon juice, and sometimes mint.

toum: a garlic condiment common in the Levant, similar to aioli, made with garlic, salt, olive or...
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Noun

toum (usually uncountable, plural toums)

  1. (usually) A garlic condiment common in the Levant, similar to aioli, made with garlic, salt, olive or vegetable oil, lemon juice, and sometimes mint.
    • […] the magical garlic foam served with these lamb chops. Sure, toum is wilful and unpredictable as well but, as with a favourite naughty child, you persist […]2015, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better, Plum, →ISBN

Forms of toum

pluraltoums

Origin of toum

From Levantine (and Egyptian) Arabic ْتُوم (tūm, “garlic”).

Questions about toum

What does toum mean?
Toum means a garlic condiment common in the Levant, similar to aioli, made with garlic, salt, olive or vegetable oil, lemon juice, and sometimes mint.
What part of speech is toum?
Toum is a noun.
What is the plural of toum?
The plural of toum is toums.

Words near toum in the dictionary

  1. Toulousain
  2. Toulousains
  3. Toulouse
  4. Toulson
  5. Toulston
  6. toum
  7. Touma
  8. touman
  9. toumans
  10. Toumas
  11. Toumey oak

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