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by **garbitsch** » Thu May 05, 2005 8:49 pm

Yoghurt comes from the word "yogurmak" in Turkish, which means "to knead". I am not sure about the English translation though.

by **cannedmoose** » Thu May 05, 2005 10:40 pm

Turkcyp, I always thought Turkish had quite a number of German words also... any figures for that?

Maybe I got confused with them having German advisors when recodifying the language from Arabic script to Latin script... :?:

by **garbitsch** » Thu May 05, 2005 10:42 pm

AS far as I remember there are not much German words in Turkish. MAy be in law, there might be some German terms but that's all.

by **city** » Thu May 05, 2005 10:58 pm

hm, I haven't heard of any german words in turkish. Since we have a lot of turkish people here, I'm sure I would have come across those words somehow.....

by **turkcyp** » Thu May 05, 2005 11:17 pm

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by **Dawn** » Thu May 05, 2005 11:33 pm

turkcyp wrote:
Meze, it turns out that is originally a Persian word.

I thought so, it means 'taste' in Pesrian.

by **g0dz1lar** » Fri May 06, 2005 10:07 am

hi all,

"brother" you mentioned that you like oven pasta - "firin makarinasi" (i assume and please correct) that its the turkish translation of "makaronia du fournu". That is my favourite too, cold or hot it always taste delicious!

I think this is the real recipe for "makaronia du fournu" http://tastecyprus.com/content/view/25/26/

Still can find a recipe for these but "keftethes" is my favourite meal and i can easily eat them in the bucket loads with freshly squeezed lemon. Yummy!

by **brother** » Fri May 06, 2005 10:17 am

Hi g0dz1lar and welcome to the forum,

"brother" you mentioned that you like oven pasta - "firin makarinasi" (i assume and please correct) that its the turkish translation of "makaronia du fournu". That is my favourite too, cold or hot it always taste delicious!

That is exactly spot on, nice one my friend.

Still can find a recipe for these but "keftethes" is my favourite meal and i can easily eat them in the bucket loads with freshly squeezed lemon. Yummy!

Is that the one with mince meat in the middle and can also be eaten hot or cold, telll me more and see if you can get the recipe please...thanks

by **michalis5354** » Fri May 06, 2005 11:37 am

I think what brother was referring in his original message was Pastitsio: The following is the description from the website:

Pastitsio is a baked dish rather like macaroni cheese with a layer of spiced meat in the middle and white cream on top

Brother am I correct?

by **brother** » Fri May 06, 2005 1:04 pm

Yes that is right but some cheese on the very top too.

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