кюфте

Bulgarian

Татарско кюфте

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish كوفته (köfte), from Persian کوفته (kōfta, “kofta”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kʲo̟fˈtɛ]
• Syllabification^(key): кю‧фте
• Hyphenation^(key): кюф‧те

Noun

кюфте́ • (kjufté) n

1. meatball
2. (figurative) butterball, fatso (short fat person)

Declension

Declension of кюфте́

	singular	plural
indefinite	кюфте́ kjufté	кюфте́та kjuftéta
definite	кюфте́то kjuftéto	кюфте́тата kjuftétata

Alternative forms

• кьофте́ (kjofté)
• кифте́ (kifté) — dialectal

References

• “кюфте”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “кюфте”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010