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yufka

yufka noun: a thin, round, unleavened flatbread in Turkish cuisine.

Noun

yufka (countable and uncountable, plural yufkas)

  1. A thin, round, unleavened flatbread in Turkish cuisine.
    • While recently travelling Asia Minor, I reached Magnesia very hungry: having outstripped my attendants, I was alone, and went to a common shop, where I had three skewers of kebab, a much esteemed dish, and the best of the kind I ever tasted, a yufka somewhat resembling Yorkshire pudding, a large...1860, David Urquhart, The Lebanon: (Mount Souria.) A History and a Diary, volume 1, pages 351–352

Forms of yufka

pluralyufkas

Origin of yufka

From Ottoman Turkish یوفقه (yufka).

Questions about yufka

What does yufka mean?
Yufka means a thin, round, unleavened flatbread in Turkish cuisine.
What part of speech is yufka?
Yufka is a noun.
What is the plural of yufka?
The plural of yufka is yufkas.

Words near yufka in the dictionary

  1. Yueqing
  2. yueqins
  3. Yuexiu
  4. Yueyang
  5. Yuezhi
  6. yufka
  7. yufkas
  8. yuft
  9. yufts
  10. yug
  11. yuga

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