kofta

English

Wikipedia

Kofta (Kufteh Tabrizi).

Alternative forms

• kofte
• kafta

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒftə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /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) f
• Arabic: كُفْتَة ‎(kufta)
• Armenian: քյուֆթա ‎(kʿyuftʿa)
• Azeri: küftə (az)
• Bulgarian: кюфте (bg) n ‎(kjufté)
• Crimean Tatar: küfte
• French: kafta
• Georgian: გუფთა ‎(gupta)
• Greek: κεφτές (el) m ‎(keftés)
• Hebrew: כופתה (he) ‎(kufta)
• Japanese: キョフテ ‎(kyofute)
• Kazakh: кюфта ‎(kywfta)
• Kumyk: кюпте ‎(kyupte)
• Lithuanian: kofta f

• Macedonian: ќо́фте f ‎(ḱófte)
• Mongolian: көфтэ ‎(köfte)
• Persian: کوفته (fa) ‎(kufte)
• Portuguese: cafta f
• Romanian: chiftea (ro) f
• Russian: кюфта́ (ru) f ‎(kjuftá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ћу̀фта

  Roman: ćùfta (sh)

• Spanish: kofta f
• Turkish: köfte (tr)

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Crimean Tatar

Noun

kofta

1. woman's jacket.

Declension

Declension of kofta

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

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ISBN 966-7980-89-8