sambuusa

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sambuusa

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From Somali sambuus, from Classical Persian سَنْبوسَه (sanbōsa), from Middle Persian *sambōsag. Doublet of sambusa, sambusak, sambuseh, samosa, and samsa.

noun sambuusas

A Somali snack similar to a samosa. There are influences from across the Arabian Sea, as with sambuusas, triangles of dough sealed around cumin-laced ground beef or chicken, distant kin to Indian samosas.

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@misc{sambuusa_2026,
  title = {sambuusa},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sambuusa},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}