pastrami

• pastrame (rare)

Borrowed from Yiddish פּאַסטראַמע (pastrame), from Romanian pastramă, from Ottoman Turkish باصدرمه (modern Turkish pastırma),^[1][2][3] a variation of bastırma (“dried meat”), from root bas- (“to press”). It is sometimes claimed that the origin of the Turkish word is Greek παστώνω (pastóno, “I salt”), from Ancient Greek παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt, salted”). The English spelling ending in -mi is probably from the influence of salami.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pæˈstɹɑːmi/, /pəˈstɹɑːmi/
• (US) enPR: pə-sträʹmē, IPA^(key): /pəˈstɹɑːmi/

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pastrami (countable and uncountable, plural pastramis)

1. A seasoned smoked cut of beef, traditionally made from a navel cut.

• → Cebuano: pastrami
• → German: Pastrami
• → Spanish: pastrami

• corned beef
• smoked meat (a similar deli meat made from a brisket cut)
• salt beef
• smoked beef

• pastirma

From English pastrami.

• Hyphenation: pas‧tra‧mi

pastrami

1. a pastrami

From Yiddish פּאַסטראַמע (pastrame).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑstrɑmi/, [ˈpɑ̝s̠.trɑ̝mi]
• Rhymes: -ɑstrɑmi
• Syllabification^(key): past‧ra‧mi
• Hyphenation^(key): past‧ra‧mi

pastrami

1. pastrami

• “pastrami”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

From Romanian pastramă, probably through Yiddish and possibly through English, that from Ottoman Turkish باصدرمه (modern Turkish pastırma).

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pastrami m (plural pastramis)

1. pastrami

From Romanian pastramă, probably through Yiddish and possibly through English, that from Ottoman Turkish باصدرمه (modern Turkish pastırma).

pastrami m (plural pastramis)

1. pastrami (seasoned cut of smoked beef)