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Pastrami

//pəˈstɹɑːmi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A seasoned smoked cut of beef, traditionally made from a navel cut. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    highly seasoned cut of smoked beef wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish פּאַסטראַמע (pastrame), from Romanian pastramă, from Ottoman Turkish باصدرمه (modern Turkish pastırma), a variation of bastırma (“dried meat”), from root bas- (“to press”). It is sometimes claimed that the origin of the Turkish word is Greek παστώνω (pastóno, “I salt”), from Ancient Greek παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt, salted”). The English spelling ending in -mi is probably from the influence of salami.

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