samosa
Saysuh-MOH-suhUS/səˈmoʊsə/UK/səˈməʊsə/
Pluralsamosas, samose
- 1A South Asian snack of deep-fried triangular pastry filled with spiced vegetables, especially potatoes, or meat.
The vendor fried a fresh batch of samosas every afternoon for the market crowd.
He bit into the crisp samosa and burned his tongue on the spiced potato filling.
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Origin
Borrowed from Hindustani samosa, from Classical Persian sanbōsa (also sambōsa), from Middle Persian *sambōsag. It is a doublet of words like sambusa and samsa.