cheburek

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English

Etymology

From Russian чебуре́к (čeburék).

Noun

cheburek (plural chebureki)

  1. singular of chebureki (a deep-fried turnover filled with ground meat and onions, a national dish of the Crimean Tatars)
    • 1993, Jack Schnedler, Chicago, Compass America Guides:
      The R. Restaurant, a “free style cafe” at 2954 West Devon, covers several bases with the promise of “Middle East, American, and Russian ” cooking — including Georgian-style chiburek dumplings from the Caucasus.
    • 2015, Olga Syutkin, Pavel Syutkin, CCCP Cook Book: True Stories of Soviet Cuisine, Fuel Publishing:
      Many people still believe that chebureks are part of Asian cuisine , originating in Tashkent or Samarkand.
    • 2019 August 1, Ed Pulford, Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135:
      One café offering Uzbek samsy, manty and lagman and Tatar cheburek was named 'Oriental Flavour', odd given that the 'oriental' places referred to were thousands of miles to the west.