tagine

English

Noun

tagine (plural tagines)

1. Alternative spelling of tajine
   • 2005, Tess Mallos, Cooking Moroccan, Millers Point, N.S.W.: Murdoch Books, →ISBN, pages 8 and 14:

     [page 8] On a round table, food is served in a central platter or tagine or in shallow dishes so that it can be easily picked up with the fingers. [...] [page 14] Fresh broad beans are used when in season, the young beans added to tagines with the skin on; when more mature, the beans are blanched and skinned before cooking.

Anagrams

• eating, giante, ingate, tangie, teaing

French

un tagine

Alternative forms

• tajine

Etymology

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic طجين (ṭajīn), from Arabic طَاجِن (ṭājin, “shallow earthen pot”), from Ancient Greek τάγηνον (tágēnon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ʒin/

Noun

tagine m (plural tagines)

1. tajine, tagine

Further reading

• “tagine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• gâtine, gênait, gitane

Portuguese

Noun

tagine m (plural tagines)

1. tajine (Moroccan stew)