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khachapuri
Jul. 19th, 2017 07:32 amkhachapuri (ha-dja-POO-ree) - n., a Georgian cheese-filled pastry.
That's Georgia the country in the Caucasus, and this is the national dish. Supposedly better than pizza. That's a hard /h/ at the beginning, like the start of Hanukkah. From Georgian, natch, where the -puri part means bread, ultimately from ancient Greek purós, wheat, but the first part is tricky: it's either from xač̣o, curds, or xač̣a, the name of the baker who supposedly invented it -- frankly, the first sounds more likely, but what do I know.
---L.
That's Georgia the country in the Caucasus, and this is the national dish. Supposedly better than pizza. That's a hard /h/ at the beginning, like the start of Hanukkah. From Georgian, natch, where the -puri part means bread, ultimately from ancient Greek purós, wheat, but the first part is tricky: it's either from xač̣o, curds, or xač̣a, the name of the baker who supposedly invented it -- frankly, the first sounds more likely, but what do I know.
---L.
