"escabeche" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌɛs.kəˈbɛtʃ.ɪ/ [UK], /ˌɛs.kəˈbeɪ.tʃeɪ/ [US], /ˌɛs.kəˈbeɪʃ/ [US], /ʔɛs.kɐˈbɛ.tʃɛ/ [Philippines] Forms: escabeches [plural]
Rhymes: (UK) -ɛtʃi, (US) -eɪʃ Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Spanish escabeche, from Andalusian Arabic اَلسُّكَّبَاج (assukkabáj), from Arabic اَلسِّكْبَاجَة (as-sikbāja), feminine of سِكْبَاج (sikbāj), from Middle Persian [script needed] (*sḵbʾk' /⁠*sikbāg⁠/) (whence Persian سکبا (sekbâ)). Possibly related to ceviche. Doublet of caveach and sikbaj. Etymology templates: {{ubor|en|es|escabeche}} Unadapted borrowing from Spanish escabeche, {{der|en|xaa|اَلسُّكَّبَاج|tr=assukkabáj}} Andalusian Arabic اَلسُّكَّبَاج (assukkabáj), {{der|en|ar|سكباجة|اَلسِّكْبَاجَة}} Arabic اَلسِّكْبَاجَة (as-sikbāja), {{der|en|pal|tr=*sḵbʾk'|ts=*sikbāg}} Middle Persian [script needed] (*sḵbʾk' /⁠*sikbāg⁠/), {{cog|fa|سکبا|tr=sekbâ}} Persian سکبا (sekbâ), {{doublet|en|caveach|sikbaj}} Doublet of caveach and sikbaj Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} escabeche (countable and uncountable, plural escabeches)
  1. A dish of fish (or sometimes chicken) first fried then marinated in a spiced vinegar and served cold. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (a dish of fish (or sometimes chicken) first fried then marinated in a spiced vinegar and served cold): سِكْبَاج أَنْدَلُسِيّ (sikbāj ʔandalusiyy) [masculine] (Arabic), escabetx [masculine] (Catalan), escabèche [feminine] (French), escabeche [masculine] (Galician), scapece [feminine] (Italian), scabeccio [masculine] (Italian), carpione [masculine] (Italian), 南蛮漬け (nanbandzuke) (Japanese), エスカベーシュ (esukabēshu) (Japanese), エスカベーチェ (esukabēche) (Japanese), escabècha [feminine] (Occitan), escabeche [masculine] (Portuguese), escabeche [masculine] (Spanish), lampahan (Tagalog), eskabetse (Tagalog)

Inflected forms

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    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "lang_code": "tl",
      "sense": "a dish of fish (or sometimes chicken) first fried then marinated in a spiced vinegar and served cold",
      "word": "lampahan"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "lang_code": "tl",
      "sense": "a dish of fish (or sometimes chicken) first fried then marinated in a spiced vinegar and served cold",
      "word": "eskabetse"
    }
  ],
  "word": "escabeche"
}

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