kurabiye

plural kurabiyes · alternative kurabie · alternative ghorayebah · alternative ghraybeh · alternative kourabiedes · alternative kourabiethes

1. rareA cookie, particularly a sweet cookie (originally Middle Eastern, now also Turkish, Greek and Albanian), often made with almonds or hazelnuts.

   'What a kurabiye, what a biscuit! Ha? Aren't you?' Gertjie freezes. Delican does the same, and they stay poised like this, reared like animals.

   1992, Antony Sher, The indoor boy, page 68

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   […] they tend to be given as gifts as well[,] hence one is usually eating someone else's kurabiyes and not one's own. The word itself is Arabic, as is the basic recipe though it has passed into the kitchen of Turks, Greeks, Armenians and Jews.

   1997, Esin Eden, Nicholas Stavroulakis, Salonika: A Family Cookbook, page 212