nihari

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Urdu نہاری, from Persian نهاری (nehâri, “breakfast”), from Arabic نهار (nahār, “daytime, day”).

Noun

nihari (uncountable)

1. A South Asian stew of slow-cooked beef or lamb with bone marrow.
   • 2015 July 6, Helen Pidd, “Working lunches around the world: what's in your lunchbox?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Today we’re having slow-cooked lamb nihari, sag aloo, lentil dal, pilau rice, green salad and seekh kebab.