sabzi
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Fresh vegetables sold or used for cooking
- noun
- Indian
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- She bought fresh sabzi from the market every morning for her family's meals.
Examples
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Vendors displayed piles of green sabzi on their carts in the busy street.
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The recipe calls for a variety of chopped sabzi to add flavor and color.
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I bought some fresh sabzi from the market.
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The sabzi looks really fresh today.
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She bought fresh sabzi from the market every morning for her family's meals.
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The recipe calls for a variety of chopped sabzi to add flavor and color.
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Vendors displayed piles of green sabzi on their carts in the busy street.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sabzi comes from Persian sabz meaning 'green', and in South Asia it is also used for the fresh vegetables people buy in markets. So sabzi can mean the 'greens' or vegetable produce used in cooking.