Definitions

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  • noun A dumpling of minced meat and other ingredients wrapped in a leaf (grape or cabbage); the Turkish equivalent of dolma.

Etymologies

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From Turkish sarma.

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Examples

  • Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal The beef sarma is a half-dozen grape leaves stuffed with a mix of beef, onions and rice.

    Mezes and Veggies 2010

  • Share the sampler of 15 meze spreads ($10, or available as takeout for $6.99 a pound; the menu lists 18) and the beef sarma, a half-dozen grape leaves stuffed with a succulent mix of beef, onions and rice and accompanied with yogurt and a potato and vegetable side dish ($12).

    Greece Meets Turkey in Hell's Kitchen 2010

  • My favorite things made from cabbage are kimchi, sauerkraut, and sarma.

    [the cabbage] neo-feudal staple 2009

  • There are kebabs as well as sarma, which sound exactly like Greek dolmades wrapped in grape leaves.

    You've Got to Smell This - Aroma Cafe 2005

  • But when sarma are wrapped in sour cabbage and served with sour cream, there begins the Balkan and eastern European influence.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • But when sarma are wrapped in sour cabbage and served with sour cream, there begins the Balkan and eastern European influence.

    You've Got to Smell This - Aroma Cafe 2005

  • There are kebabs as well as sarma, which sound exactly like Greek dolmades wrapped in grape leaves.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • "We were like a Red Cross," Ms. Grbic said as she and her son Ermin Grbic served an early lunch of trahana, a tomato-based soup with spaetzle-like dumplings, and sarma, a beef- and rice-stuffed cabbage roll smothered in tomato sauce.

    NYT > Home Page By JOHN T. EDGE 2011

  • Sunday, will include chicken and beef kebabs, cheese and spinach burek, lahmajoun (a pizzalike meat dish served on thin tortilla dough), hummus, tabbouleh, choreg (bread sticks), vegetarian and meat sarma

    JSOnline.com 2010

  • He's also doing alabalik, rainbow trout cooked with mozzarella cheese; balik sarma, or grilled grape-leaf-wrapped sardines; and mercimek koftesi, spicy, cold lentil fingers that are a vegetarian approximation of cig kofte, the raw meatballs served at nearby Nazarlik.

    Chicago Reader 2010

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