tharid

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ثَرِيد (ṯarīd). Compare Portuguese açorda.

Noun

tharid (countable and uncountable, plural tharids)

1. A traditional Arab dish of pieces of bread in a vegetable or meat broth, consumed especially during Ramadan, said to have been the favourite food of the prophet Muhammad.
   • 2014, Alan Davidson, The Oxford Companion to Food, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 818:

     Most modern tharids involve alternating layers of stew and flatbread. [...] In the Middle Ages, very elegant tharids were made.

Anagrams

• rhatid