Etymology

sikbaj

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Today it means: A dish of meat cooked or marinated in vinegar and often also honey, eaten since at least the sixth century and historically popular among Arabs and Persians. Full definition →

Arabic سِكْبَاج ← Middle Persian [script needed]
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  1. Middle Persian · derived from[script needed]
  2. Arabic · borrowed fromسِكْبَاج
  3. English todaysikbaj

From Arabic سِكْبَاج (sikbāj), Middle Persian [script needed] (*sḵbʾk' /⁠*sikbāg⁠/, literally “vinegar soup”). Doublet of caveach and escabeche.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.