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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