lavash

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UK/ləˈvɑːʃ/UK/ləˈvaʃ/

noun

A soft, thin flatbread made with flour, water, yeast, and salt, baked in a tandoor, and sometimes sprinkled with sesame seeds or poppy seeds before baking.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounlavash (countable and uncountable, plural lavashes)

plural lavashes · alternative lavache · alternative levash · alternative levache

  1. countableuncountableA soft, thin flatbread made with flour, water, yeast, and salt, baked in a tandoor, and sometimes sprinkled with sesame seeds or poppy seeds before baking.

    Once you’ve got the chicken right, it’s up to you whether you serve it over rice, stuffed into a fluffy pita or wrapped up in a paper-thin lavash – and which sauce you go for, if any.

    2022 August 17, Felicity Cloake, “How to make the perfect chicken shawarma – recipe”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2022
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    The importance of Nowruz is reflected in an elaborate sabzi polo, the herbed rice capped with a crunchy tahdig, the crust formed from lettuce, rice mixed with yogurt or lavash or another thin flatbread.

    2026 March 15, Genevieve Ko, “‘This Is the Best Dish I Have Ever Made From NYT Cooking’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2026

    Synonyms: Armenian cracker bread

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA soft, thin flatbread made with flour, water, yeast, and salt, baked in a tandoor, and sometimes sprinkled with sesame seeds or poppy seeds before baking.

Origin

  1. Turkishlavaş
  2. Armenianլավաշ
  3. Englishlavash

From Armenian լավաշ (lavaš) and partly from Turkish lavaş. See there for more.

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Translations

Arabic لَافَاش, لَافَاش
  • لَافَاش (lavaš)a soft, thin flatbread
  • لَافَاش (lafāš)a soft, thin flatbread
Bulgarian лава́ш
  • лава́ш (laváš)a soft, thin flatbread
Chinese Mandarin 拉瓦什
  • 拉瓦什a soft, thin flatbread
Czech lavaš
  • lavaša soft, thin flatbread
Esperanto lavaŝo
  • lavaŝoa soft, thin flatbread
Estonian lavašš
  • lavašša soft, thin flatbread
Finnish lavash
  • lavasha soft, thin flatbread
French lavash
  • lavasha soft, thin flatbread
German Lavash
  • Lavasha soft, thin flatbread
Hebrew לוואשי
  • לוואשיa soft, thin flatbread
Hindi लवाश
  • लवाश (lavāś)a soft, thin flatbread
Japanese ラヴァッシュ
  • ラヴァッシュ (ravasshu)a soft, thin flatbread
Korean 라바슈
  • 라바슈 (rabasyu)a soft, thin flatbread
Latvian lavašs
  • lavašsa soft, thin flatbread
Lithuanian lavašas
  • lavašasa soft, thin flatbread
Polish lawasz
  • lawasza soft, thin flatbread
Portuguese pão lavash
  • pão lavasha soft, thin flatbread
Russian лава́ш
  • лава́ш (laváš)a soft, thin flatbread
Slovak lavaš
  • lavaša soft, thin flatbread
Spanish lavash
  • lavasha soft, thin flatbread
Turkish lavaş
  • lavaşa soft, thin flatbread
Ukrainian лава́ш
  • лава́ш (laváš)a soft, thin flatbread
Urdu لَواش
  • لَواش (lavāś)a soft, thin flatbread
Cite this entry
APA

lavash. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lavash

MLA

“lavash.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lavash. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lavash,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lavash.

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