سنبوسق

• سَنْبُوسَك (sanbūsak), سَنْبُوسَج (sanbūsaj), سَمْبُوسَك (sambūsak)
• سَنْبُوسَة (sanbūsa), سَمْبُوسَة (sambūsa) — from Neo-Persian

From Middle Persian *sambōsag, whence Persian سنبوسه (sanbuse).

• IPA^(key): /san.buː.saq/

سَنْبُوسَق • (sanbūsaq) m (collective)

1. samosa, a triangular sweet- or meat-filled fried bread
   • a. 1222, نَجِيب الدِّين السَّمَرْقَنْدِيّ [najīb ad-dīn as-samarqandiyy], edited by Juliane Müller, كِتَاب الْأَغْذِيَة وَٱلْأَشْرِبَة [kitāb al-ʔaḡdiya wa-l-ʔǎšriba] (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies; 101)‎, Leiden: Brill, published 2017, →ISBN, page 244:

     ٱلسَّنْبُوسَقُ غَلِيظٌ طَوِيلُ ٱلْوُقُوفِ فِي ٱلْمَعِدَةِ مُعْطِشٌ مُبَخِّرٌ إِلَى ٱلرَّأْسِ، يَنْبَغِي أَنْ يُؤْكَلَ بِٱلْخَلِّ، وَٱلْمُتَّخَذُ مِنْهُ بِٱلْخَسِّ وَٱلْقَرْعِ وَٱلْكُزْبَرَةِ وَنَحْوِهَا بِدَهْنِ ٱللَّوْزِ وَصُدُورِ ٱلْفَرَارِيخِ يُرَطِّبُ ٱلدِّمَاغَ وَيُسْكِنُ مِنْ حَرَارَتِهِ.

     s-sanbūsaqu ḡalīẓun ṭawīlu l-wuqūfi fī l-maʕidati muʕṭišun mubaḵḵirun ʔilā r-raʔsi, yanbaḡī ʔan yuʔkala bi-l-ḵalli, wal-muttaḵaḏu minhu bi-l-ḵassi wal-qarʕi wal-kuzbarati wa-naḥwi-hā bi-dahni l-lawzi waṣudūri l-farārīḵi yuraṭṭibu d-dimāḡa wayuskinu min ḥarārati-hī.

     The samosa is thick and persistent in the maw, makes thirst and steams the head, and it is desirable that it is eaten with vinegar; and taken with lettuce, gourd, coriander and the like and with almond oil and chicken breasts it dampens the brain and soothens its heat.