Meaning of durum | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A traditional Turkish wrap (which is made from lavash or yufka flatbread) that is filled with typical doner kebab ingredients.
2. Ellipsis of durum wheat.
   abbreviation, alt-of, attributive, ellipsis, often, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“durum pasta”

“durum bread”

“Much has been done in crossing Triticum durum Desf. and T. vulgare Vill.² in an attempt⟳ to produce⟳ common wheats that are as resistant to stem rust as are the durums.”

“2003 October, Commission staff, Durum and Hard Red Spring⟳ Wheat From Canada, U.S. International Trade⟳ Commission, Publication 3639, page V-5, The Minneapolis Grain Exchange⟳ stated that durum is a small volume commodity with very specific uses. The durum futures contract traded sporadically for several years, and the Exchange⟳ declared the durum futures market dormant after there were no trades and no open⟳ interest⟳ in any futures contracts.”

“2012, Ruby Parker Puckett, Foodservice Manual for Health Care Institutions, Wiley (Jossey-Bass), 4th Edition, page 397, Water is added to a mixture of durum meal or flour, semolina, and farina to make⟳ dough that is forced through dies to make⟳ tubular macaroni products and cord-like spaghetti.”

“Lara says she’s going to get⟳ something to eat⟳ from the Turkish place⟳ on the corner; she asks if she should bring⟳ me anything. I ask⟳ for a dürüm with everything, except onions.”

“They grabbed the tray with a dürüm and ayran from my bedside table and put⟳ it on my lap.”

“Just before 2 p.m., we entered Neco Tantuni, a one-room restaurant in Enfield that specializes in tantuni (meat fried in cottonseed oil, garnished with tomatoes, parsley, and onion, and rolled up in a dürüm wrap⟳), a street food from Mersin, in southern Turkey.”

“If you can't follow⟳ a PHP guru's talk⟳, two dürüms might help⟳ clear your head and restore⟳ your sanity.”

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