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In English, kofta is a loanword borrowed from the Urdu کوفتہ, itself borrowed from Persian کوفته kofta meaning pounded meat. [2] [3] [4] [1] The earliest extant use of the word in the Urdu language is attested from the year 1665 in Mulla Nusrati's ʿAlī Nāma.
Presidents Francisco Flores Pérez, Ricardo Maduro, George W. Bush, Abel Pacheco, Enrique Bolaños and Alfonso Portillo. The Dominican Republic–Central America–United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR; Spanish: Tratado de Libre Comercio entre República Dominicana, Centroamérica y Estados Unidos de América, TLC) is a free trade agreement (legally a treaty under international law).
bussin’ (adjective, African American English slang): extremely good: excellent; especially: delicious, tasty cheffy (adjective): characteristic of or befitting a professional chef (as in ...
The Dictionary of Americanisms , published by the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, states that pupusa derives from the Nawat word puxahua meaning "fluffy" or "fluffy thing". [5] In her book Interlude and Other Verses , Lidia Pérez de Novoa believed that pupusa derives from the Nawat word pupusawa meaning "to puff up".
China first proposed the idea of a free trade area in November 2000. Leaders of ASEAN and China thus decided to explore measures aimed at economic integration within the region [1] [2] In Brunei the following year, they endorsed the establishment of an ASEAN–China Free Trade Area.
Shawarma (/ ʃ ə ˈ w ɑːr m ə /; Arabic: شاورما) is a Middle Eastern dish that originated in the Levantine region during the Ottoman Empire, [1] [3] [4] [5] consisting of meat that is cut into thin slices, stacked in an inverted cone, and roasted on a slow-turning vertical spit.
The Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, Scribner; Mobbs, Michael (2012). Sustainable Food Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, ISBN 978-1-920705-54-1; Nestle, Marion (2007). Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, University Presses of California, revised and expanded edition, ISBN 0-520-25403-1; The Future of Food (2015).
Both the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) date the term back to the 12th century. The former gives the original meaning as a "culinary preparation consisting of minced meat or fish surrounded by dough and baked in the oven"; [1] the OED's definition is "a pie or pastry usually filled with finely minced meat, fish, vegetables, etc." [2] The French ...