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Moussaka

3 stages from Arabic to English.

Today it means a baked Greek and Middle Eastern dish of layered eggplant, meat, and bechamel sauce
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musaqqa'a
Arabic · medieval
"chilled, cooled"
literally chilled, describing a cold layered eggplant dish
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moussaka
Greek/Turkish · 1800s
"a baked, layered eggplant dish"
adapted into a baked, layered eggplant and meat dish across the eastern Mediterranean
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moussaka
English · 1900s
"a baked Greek dish of layered eggplant and meat"
adopted directly for the Greek baked eggplant and meat dish
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