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Meaning of tantuni | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

A Mersin-original streetfood of stir-fried chopped lamb or beef, onions, tomatoes, peppers, and spices in yufka or pita bread.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Deutsch Tantuni
Türkçe tantuni

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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