tabaka

The waiter, his face scrunched in reproach that we are making him carry all those heavy trays, warily sets down plates with skewers of lamb and chicken tabaka, flavorful and spicy and so much unlike our own food.

A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

The waiter, his face scrunched in reproach that we are making him carry all those heavy trays, warily sets down plates with skewers of lamb and chicken tabaka, flavorful and spicy and so much unlike our own food.

A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

She smiled back at him when she discovered the vegetables on the small table near the equally small refrigerator and then set to work on heating his chicken tabaka, which she had prepared and cooked the night before.

A Cold Red Sunrise Kaminsky, Stuart M. 1988

If the flashlight did fail, Rostnikov would put the book away and sit silently waiting, contemplating the dinner of chicken tabaka, chicken with prune sauce and pickled cabbage, that his wife Sarah had promised him for that night if she did not get another one of the headaches she had been plagued by for the past few months.

A Cold Red Sunrise Kaminsky, Stuart M. 1988

Bandy took a bit tarry string, or tabaka or something, ooten his breeks pooch, an ', nippin' aff a quarter o 'a yaird o't, he into his moo wi't.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

[FN#14] "Abú Tabak," in Cairene slang, is an officer who arrests by order of the Kazi and means "Father of whipping" (= tabaka, a low word for beating, thrashing, whopping) because he does his duty with all possible violence in terrorem.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Tabak,” in Cairene slang, is an officer who arrests by order of the Kazi and means “Father of whipping” (= tabaka, a low word for beating, thrashing, whopping) because he does his duty with all possible violence in terrorem.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Nikolai glanced at the menu, then said to Tiffany, "I suggest the tsiplyata tabaka - spiced chicken flattened between two searing-hot stones.

Dance Of Desire Lisa, Leonore 1982