tahini

English

Alternative forms

• tahina
• tehina

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic طَحِينَة (ṭaḥīna), from the root ط ح ن (ṭ-ḥ-n) related to grinding. Final -i most probably from Levantine dialects or from Greek ταχίνι (tachíni).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɑːˈhiː.ni/

Noun

tahini (countable and uncountable, plural tahinis)

1. (cooking) A paste made from ground sesame seeds, and used to make hummus, baba ghanoush etc.

Synonyms

• ardeh

Translations

sesame paste

• Arabic: طَحِينَة f (ṭaḥīna)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 芝麻醬／芝麻酱 (zh) (zhīmajiàng), 芝麻酱 (zh) (zhīmajiàng)

• Esperanto: sezama pasto
• Finnish: tahini
• French: tahini (fr)
• German: tahina
• Greek: ταχίνι (el) n (tachíni)
• Hebrew: טחינה (he) f (t'khína)
• Hindi: ताहिनी (tāhinī)
• Italian: tahina
• Japanese: 芝麻醤 (chīmājan)
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• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: таан m (taan)
• Manchu: ᠮᠠᠯᠠᠩᡤᡡ
  ᠮᡳᠰᡠᠨ (malanggū misun)
• Persian: ارده (fa) (arde)
• Polish: tahini (pl)
• Portuguese: tahine
• Russian: тахини (ru) (taxini)
• Spanish: tahina
• Swedish: sesampasta (sv) c, tahini (sv)
• Turkish: tahin (tr)
• Urdu: تاہینی (tāhinī)

Further reading

• tahini on Wikipedia.Wikipedia