dürüm

noun

A traditional Turkish wrap (which is made from lavash or yufka flatbread) that is filled with typical doner kebab ingredients.

Meanings

noundürüm (plural dürüms)

plural dürüms

  1. A traditional Turkish wrap (which is made from lavash or yufka flatbread) that is filled with typical doner kebab ingredients.

    They grabbed the tray with a dürüm and ayran from my bedside table and put it on my lap.

    2021, Ahmet Halûk Ünal, translated by Nicholas Glastonbury, “Soramin’s Diary”, in The American Way: Stories of Invasion, Manchester: Comma Press, “Kurdistan, 1999” section
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    Lara says she’s going to get something to eat from the Turkish place on the corner; she asks if she should bring me anything. I ask for a dürüm with everything, except onions.

    2015, Andreas Pritzker, translated by Alex Gabriel, Lies, Lies and More Lies, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 177

    Just before 2 p.m., we entered Neco Tantuni, a one-room restaurant in Enfield that specializes in tantuni (meat fried in cottonseed oil, garnished with tomatoes, parsley, and onion, and rolled up in a dürüm wrap), a street food from Mersin, in southern Turkey.

    2023 March 8, Sam Knight, “The Writer Changing How London Thinks About Its Food”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2023

    If you can't follow a PHP guru's talk, two dürüms might help clear your head and restore your sanity.

    2024, Mathias Weber, Europe’s Sweet Spot for Software Architects, [Vienna]: story.one publishing, →ISBN, page 52

Origin

  1. Turkishdürüm
  2. Englishdürüm

Unadapted borrowing from Turkish dürüm.

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Translations

German Dürüm
  • DürümTurkish wrap
Hindi दुरुम
  • दुरुम (durum)Turkish wrap
Swedish kebabrulle
  • kebabrulleTurkish wrap
Turkish dürüm
  • dürümTurkish wrap
Cite this entry
APA

dürüm. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/d%C3%BCr%C3%BCm

MLA

“dürüm.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/d%C3%BCr%C3%BCm. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dürüm,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/d%C3%BCr%C3%BCm.

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