kurabie
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Arabic غُرَّبِيَّة (ḡurrabiyya), via Albanian kurabie.
Noun[edit]
kurabie (plural not attested)
- Alternative form of kurabiye
- 1997, David Levinson, Melvin Ember, American immigrant cultures: builders of a nation, →ISBN, page 30:
- These traditional foods include barbecued roast lamb; spinach; leek- or squash-filled pies (lakror); and pastries such as kurabie, brushtull, and baklava.
- 2001, Greek Island Life: Fieldwork on Anafi, →ISBN, page 63:
- It suddenly occurred to me that there are periods of glut at which obligations are repaid (shortbread-like sweet cakes, kurabies, at New Year, sausages and meat in November, cheeses in Lent, etc.)