Meanings
plural yufkas
- countableuncountableA thin, round, unleavened flatbread in Turkish cuisine.
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While recently travelling Asia Minor, I reached Magnesia very hungry: having outstripped my attendants, I was alone, and went to a common shop, where I had three skewers of kebab, a much esteemed dish, and the best of the kind I ever tasted, a yufka somewhat resembling Yorkshire pudding, a large lump of ice in the jar of water, a dish of yaourt, a bunch of grapes, and afterwards a caimac (cream) ice.
1860, David Urquhart, The Lebanon: (Mount Souria.) A History and a Diary, volume 1, pages 351–352
Origin
- Ottoman Turkishیوفقه
- Englishyufka
From Ottoman Turkish یوفقه (yufka).
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