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noun
A dish of meat cooked or marinated in vinegar and often also honey, eaten since at least the sixth century and historically popular among Arabs and Persians.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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History
From Arabic سِكْبَاج (sikbāj), Middle Persian [script needed] (*sḵbʾk' /*sikbāg/, literally “vinegar soup”). Doublet of caveach and escabeche.
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