halloumi
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mi noun
a salty cheese originating in Cyprus and made from sheep’s or goat’s milk: often grilled or fried because it melts very slowly.
Also, ha·lou·mi.
Origin:
< Egyptian Arabic < Arabic ḥalūm, probably from ḥaluma ‘to be mild’
< Egyptian Arabic < Arabic ḥalūm, probably from ḥaluma ‘to be mild’
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| —n | |
| a salty white sheep's-milk cheese from Greece or Turkey, usually eaten grilled | |
| [probably from Arabic haluma be mild] | |
| haloumi or haloumi | |
| —n | |
| [probably from Arabic haluma be mild] | |
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Halloumi
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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