tharid
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Arabic ثَرِيد (ṯarīd). Compare Portuguese açorda.
Noun[edit]
tharid (countable and uncountable, plural tharids)
- A traditional Arab dish of pieces of bread in a vegetable or meat broth, consumed especially during Ramadan, said to have been the favourite food of the prophet Muhammad.
- 2014, Alan Davidson, The Oxford Companion to Food, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 818:
- Most modern tharids involve alternating layers of stew and flatbread. [...] In the Middle Ages, very elegant tharids were made.