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sabzi

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A vegetable dish often cooked and served with rice or bread

noun
/sɑːbzi/

Indian

: sabzi

I love preparing a spicy sabzi with seasonal vegetables from the local market.

Examples

For dinner, we enjoyed a flavorful mixed vegetable sabzi made with carrots, peas, and potatoes.
Velma, that's ghormeh sabzi.

ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction (2010)
At the restaurant, the chef recommended the special sabzi cooked with a blend of spices and fresh herbs.

Surface Forms

sabzi singular

sabzis plural

Etymology

Sabzi comes from Persian sabz meaning 'green', and in Hindi and Urdu it means vegetables used for food. So sabzi often refers to a cooked or mixed vegetable dish, literally a 'green' dish.