Etymology

moghrabieh

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Today it means: Small dough balls in Levantine cuisine made from hand-rolled flour, resembling couscous but larger in diameter. Full definition →

North Levantine Arabic مُغرَبِيِّة
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  1. North Levantine Arabic · borrowed fromمُغرَبِيِّة
  2. English todaymoghrabieh

Borrowed from North Levantine Arabic مُغرَبِيِّة (moḡrabiyye, noun, literally “Moroccan (thing)”), from the feminine of مُغْرَبِي (moḡrabi, “Moroccan”, adjective), the local vernacular cognate of Standard Arabic مَغْرِبِيّ (maḡribiyy, “Moroccan”).

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