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samosa

samosa

4 3.4
A small triangular fried pastry filled with spicy potatoes or meat
  • noun
  • /səˈmoʊsə/
translation icon : samosa
  • Here are some delicious samosas filled with spicy potatoes and peas.
  • vegetable samosas
  • samosas (deep-fried)
  • small triangular samosas

Examples

  • Mum's making samosas.

    Bend It Like Beckham (2002)

  • We will start off with vegetable samosa appetizers with mint chutney.

    American Desi (2001)

  • These are samosas from a couple of days ago.

    Downsizing (2017)

  • - I brought some samosas.

    Pi (1998)

  • Here's some samosas that we made for you.

    Raising Helen (2004)

  • Ma, can I get you some samosas from the bazaar?

    The Householder (1963)

  • I'm going to be a good Bengali housewife, and make samosas every Thursday from scratch.

    The Namesake (2006)

  • She was having her favorite snack—the samosa.

    Blog text (16)

  • The kind folks at Portobello High had prepared a veritable feast of sandwiches, wraps, pizza, samosas, pakoras, and fresh fruit.

    Blog text (21)

  • For example, samosas—the piquant potato-and-pea-stuffed pastries—are often enjoyed as a snack on their own.

    Blog text (12)

How Spicy

vindaloo
2 4.8
chaat
  • UK
2 8.6
samosa
4 3.4
puri
  • UK
1 6.8
cracker
  • US
114 1.0

Surface Forms

samosa singular
samosas plural

Etymology

Samosa comes from old Persian sanbosag and an earlier Indian word samsa, both meaning a 'triangular pastry' or 'small stuffed pie'. That's why a samosa today is a small, triangular pastry filled with spicy potatoes or meat.