Meanings
plural tantunis
- countableuncountableA type of street food originating from Mersin consisting of stir-fried chopped beef or lamb, onions, peppers, tomatoes, and spices in pita or yufka bread.
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
Origin
- Turkishtantuni
- Englishtantuni
Borrowed from Turkish tantuni.
More words from Turkish
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German Tantuni
- Tantunitype of street food consisting of stir-fried chopped beef or lamb, etc., in bread
Polish tantuni
- tantunitype of street food consisting of stir-fried chopped beef or lamb, etc., in bread
Turkish tantuni
- tantunitype of street food consisting of stir-fried chopped beef or lamb, etc., in bread
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tantuni. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tantuni
“tantuni.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tantuni. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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