Pastirma
Overview
Ottoman cuisine
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The name bastirma is from (pressed meat). bastırma is the gerund
Gerund
In linguistics* As applied to English, it refers to the usage of a verb as a noun ....
of the verb bastırmak (bastırmak in modern Turkish), which means "to depress, restrain". The word is used with minor variants in the various languages of the region: , , , , Bosnian
Bosnian language
Bosnian is a South Slavic language, spoken by Bosniaks. As a standardized form of the Shtokavian dialect, it is one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina....
, Croatian
Croatian language
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and Serbian
Serbian language
Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
: pastrma, , or παστρουμάς (pastroumás), and .
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