kofta

English

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Kofta (Kufteh Tabrizi).

Alternative forms

• kofte
• kafta

Etymology

From Persian کوفته (kufte, “ground meat”), from کوفتن (kuftan, “to grind, break, beat”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈkɒftə/
• (US) IPA: /ˈkɑːftə/, /ˈkɔːftə/

Noun

kofta (plural koftas)

1. Any of various spicy meatball or meatloaf dishes of the Middle East, Caucasus, South Asia, and the Balkans.

Translations

meatball or meatloaf dish

Albanian: qofte (sq) Arabic: كفتة (ar) (kuftah) Armenian: քյուֆթա (hy) (k’yuft’a) Azeri: küftə (az) Bulgarian: кюфте (bg) (kjufté) n. French: kafta (fr) Greek: κεφτές (el) (keftes) m.

Hebrew: כופתה (he) (kufta) Persian: کوفته (fa) (kufte) Romanian: chiftea (ro) f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ћу̀фта (sh) Roman: ćùfta (sh) Turkish: köfte (tr)

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Noun

kofta

1. woman's jacket.

Declension

    declension of kofta

nominative	kofta
genitive	koftanıñ
dative	koftağa
accusative	koftanı
locative	koftada
ablative	koftadan

References

• Useinov & Mireev Dictionary, Simferopol, Dolya, 2002 [1]