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Small portions of starters typical of Turkish, Greek and Levantine cuisine (equivalent to Spanish tapas or Hawaiian pu pu) often served as a light meal with pita.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
From Turkish meze and Greek μεζές (mezés), both from Ottoman Turkish مزه (meze), from Iranian Persian مَزِه (maze, “taste, snack”).
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Albanian:
meze
— small portions of starters typical of Turkish, Greek and Levantine cuisine
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Arabic:
مَزَّة
(mazza)
— small portions of starters typical of Turkish, Greek and Levantine cuisine
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Arabic:
مزة
(mazza)
— small portions of starters typical of Turkish, Greek and Levantine cuisine
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Azerbaijani:
məzə
— small portions of starters typical of Turkish, Greek and Levantine cuisine
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Chinese Mandarin:
梅澤 /梅泽
— small portions of starters typical of Turkish, Greek and Levantine cuisine
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French:
mezzé
— small portions of starters typical of Turkish, Greek and Levantine cuisine
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Greek:
μεζές
(mezés)
— small portions of starters typical of Turkish, Greek and Levantine cuisine
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Japanese:
メゼ
(meze)
— small portions of starters typical of Turkish, Greek and Levantine cuisine
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Korean:
메제
(meje)
— small portions of starters typical of Turkish, Greek and Levantine cuisine
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Northern Kurdish:
meze
— small portions of starters typical of Turkish, Greek and Levantine cuisine
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Macedonian:
мезе
(meze)
— small portions of starters typical of Turkish, Greek and Levantine cuisine
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Iranian Persian:
مَزِه
(maze)
— small portions of starters typical of Turkish, Greek and Levantine cuisine
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Russian:
мезе́
(mezɛ́)
— small portions of starters typical of Turkish, Greek and Levantine cuisine
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Serbo-Croatian:
мѐзе
— small portions of starters typical of Turkish, Greek and Levantine cuisine
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Serbo-Croatian:
mèze
— small portions of starters typical of Turkish, Greek and Levantine cuisine
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Turkish:
meze
— small portions of starters typical of Turkish, Greek and Levantine cuisine
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Ottoman Turkish:
مزه
(meze)
— small portions of starters typical of Turkish, Greek and Levantine cuisine
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Urdu:
میزے
(meze)
— small portions of starters typical of Turkish, Greek and Levantine cuisine
