# samosa

Pronunciation: say "suh-MOH-suh" US /səˈmoʊsə/, UK /səˈməʊsə/

## Noun

1. A South Asian snack of deep-fried triangular pastry filled with spiced vegetables, especially potatoes, or meat.
   - Simple: A fried pastry shaped like a triangle, filled with spiced potatoes, vegetables, 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._

## 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.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/samosa (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).