Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A common Arabic beverage, consisting of coagulated sour milk, often diluted with water.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Coagulated sour milk diluted with water; -- a common beverage among the Arabs. Also, a fermented liquor made of the same.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Coagulated sour milk diluted with water.
- noun
Yoghurt (as used in Middle Eastern cuisine). - noun A
fermented liquor made withcoagulated sour milk.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lactic acid sours milk, and gives yogurt and other forms of sour milk such as koumiss, kefir, and leban their distinct flavor.
Archive 2007-09-01 Steve Carper 2007
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Lactic acid sours milk, and gives yogurt and other forms of sour milk such as koumiss, kefir, and leban their distinct flavor.
Fermented Food Isn't Cultured Food Steve Carper 2007
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Or they lounge on a few plastic tables and chairs next to the stand to eat their sandwiches, often washing down their meals with small cups of leban, a bitter yogurt drink.
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Gone, too, the leban zabadi, the creamy Egyptian yogurt of recent morns-but the fact that she'd skipped leban zabadi at breakfast meant that she would likely have to eat it for lunch.
Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990
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Outwardly, she scowled, but her insides turned into leban zabadi.
Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990
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A lot of leban zabadi would run under the bridge before she would pick them up again.
Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990
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'There is only one God: Sheikh Salem will never drink leban again, unless he drink it in Paradise.'
Tancred Or, The New Crusade Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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Half a dozen sheep had been given to the returning band; everywhere resounded the grinding of coffee; men passed, carrying pitchers of leban and panniers of bread cakes hot from their simple oven.
Tancred Or, The New Crusade Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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A present of leban from a daughter of En-Noor induced me to give her a ring.
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government James Richardson 1828
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