sambuusa

English

Etymology

From Somali sambuus, from Classical Persian سَنْبوسَه (sanbōsa), from Middle Persian *sambōsag. Doublet of sambusa, sambusak, sambuseh, samosa, and samsa.

Noun

sambuusa (plural sambuusas)

1. A Somali snack similar to a samosa.
   • 2015 October 1, Ligaya Mishan, “Safari Brings Somali Cuisine to Harlem”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     There are influences from across the Arabian Sea, as with sambuusas, triangles of dough sealed around cumin-laced ground beef or chicken, distant kin to Indian samosas.