: a small triangular pastry filled with spiced meat or vegetables and fried in ghee or oil
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Keep covered with a damp paper towel to prevent them from drying out while making the samosas.
4.—Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024 There will be live music and complimentary sweets and samosas.—Shafaq Patel, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024 Global flavors collide, with tiny restaurants and food stalls slinging plates of biryani, falafel, shawarma, samosas, pani puri and the even Filipino halo halo.—Catherine Garcia, theweek, 22 Oct. 2024 On board, passengers chat politics in Finnish dining cars, clamber into couchettes above strangers on the Trans-Siberian, and share samosas on India’s many raucous mail trains.—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for samosa
Word History
Etymology
Hindi samosā & Urdu samosa, sambūsa, from Persian sambūsa
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