dolma

UK: /ˈdɒlmə/ US: (dôl′mə, -mä)

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dol•ma  (dôl′mə, -mä), n. [Near Eastern Cookery.]

1. Food a dish of tomatoes, green peppers, vine leaves, or eggplants stuffed with a mixture of meat, rice, and spices.

• Turkish dolma literally, something filled, filling, equivalent. to dol- fill + -ma suffix of deverbal nouns
• 1885–90

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dolma / ˈdɒlmə -mɑː/ noun (dolmas, dolmades / dɒlˈmɑːdiːz/)

1. a vine leaf stuffed with a filling of meat and rice

Etymology: 19th Century: via Greek from Turkish dolma, literally: something filled