poori
6.8
A small round bread made from wheat dough and fried in oil
- noun
- /ˈpʊəri/
:
puri
- The chef explained how to make poori by deep-frying unleavened wheat dough until it puffs up.
Examples
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She ordered a platter of poori to accompany her meal at the Indian restaurant.
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A blown-up piece of poori: a bread cloud.
Fiction book (1995) -
In India, a popular snack is poori, which is often served with spicy potato curry.
Synonyms
1
6.8
A small round deep-fried bread from India often eaten with curries
emphasizes being made from unleavened wheat flour rather than serving context
Surface Forms
Etymology
Poori comes from India and is the same as the Hindi puri, the name for a small, round fried bread. A helpful way to remember it is to think of the English word 'puff', because the bread swells or 'puffs' up when fried, which explains the name.