kurabiye

English

Alternative forms

• kurabie (used of the Greek and Albanian versions of the cookie)
• ghorayebah, ghraybeh (used of Middle Eastern/Arabic version)
• kourabiedes, kourabiethes (used of the Greek version)

Etymology

From Turkish kurabiye.

Noun

kurabiye (plural kurabiyes)

1. (rare) A cookie, particularly a sweet cookie (originally Middle Eastern, now also Turkish, Greek and Albanian), often made with almonds or hazelnuts.
   • 1992, Antony Sher, The indoor boy, page 68:

     'What a kurabiye, what a biscuit! Ha? Aren't you?' Gertjie freezes. Delican does the same, and they stay poised like this, reared like animals.

   • 1997, Esin Eden, Nicholas Stavroulakis, Salonika: A Family Cookbook, page 212:

     […] they tend to be given as gifts as well[,] hence one is usually eating someone else's kurabiyes and not one's own. The word itself is Arabic, as is the basic recipe though it has passed into the kitchen of Turks, Greeks, Armenians and Jews.

Turkish

Alternative forms

• gurabiye (dialectal, nonstandard)

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قرابیه (kurabiye), غرابیه (gurabiye, “an almond-biscuit; a small hunting-case watch”), a pseudo-Arabism like جمهوریت (cumhuriyet) suffixed ـیت (-iyyet) from Arabic غُرَاب (ḡurāb, “the extremity of the haunch, bend of the scabbard”) because the fob watch was carried near the haunch or scabbard, from which the cookie name was transferred.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.ɾaː.bi.ˈje/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ku‧ra‧bi‧ye

Noun

kurabiye (definite accusative kurabiyeyi, plural kurabiyeler)

1. biscuit, cookie

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	kurabiye
Definite accusative	kurabiyeyi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	kurabiye	kurabiyeler
Definite accusative	kurabiyeyi	kurabiyeleri
Dative	kurabiyeye	kurabiyelere
Locative	kurabiyede	kurabiyelerde
Ablative	kurabiyeden	kurabiyelerden
Genitive	kurabiyenin	kurabiyelerin
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular kurabiyem kurabiyelerim 2nd singular kurabiyen kurabiyelerin 3rd singular kurabiyesi kurabiyeleri 1st plural kurabiyemiz kurabiyelerimiz 2nd plural kurabiyeniz kurabiyeleriniz 3rd plural kurabiyeleri kurabiyeleri Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular kurabiyemi kurabiyelerimi 2nd singular kurabiyeni kurabiyelerini 3rd singular kurabiyesini kurabiyelerini 1st plural kurabiyemizi kurabiyelerimizi 2nd plural kurabiyenizi kurabiyelerinizi 3rd plural kurabiyelerini kurabiyelerini Dative Singular Plural 1st singular kurabiyeme kurabiyelerime 2nd singular kurabiyene kurabiyelerine 3rd singular kurabiyesine kurabiyelerine 1st plural kurabiyemize kurabiyelerimize 2nd plural kurabiyenize kurabiyelerinize 3rd plural kurabiyelerine kurabiyelerine Locative Singular Plural 1st singular kurabiyemde kurabiyelerimde 2nd singular kurabiyende kurabiyelerinde 3rd singular kurabiyesinde kurabiyelerinde 1st plural kurabiyemizde kurabiyelerimizde 2nd plural kurabiyenizde kurabiyelerinizde 3rd plural kurabiyelerinde kurabiyelerinde Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular kurabiyemden kurabiyelerimden 2nd singular kurabiyenden kurabiyelerinden 3rd singular kurabiyesinden kurabiyelerinden 1st plural kurabiyemizden kurabiyelerimizden 2nd plural kurabiyenizden kurabiyelerinizden 3rd plural kurabiyelerinden kurabiyelerinden Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular kurabiyemin kurabiyelerimin 2nd singular kurabiyenin kurabiyelerinin 3rd singular kurabiyesinin kurabiyelerinin 1st plural kurabiyemizin kurabiyelerimizin 2nd plural kurabiyenizin kurabiyelerinizin 3rd plural kurabiyelerinin kurabiyelerinin