köken: Borrowed from Hokkien, either: * 扁食 (pán-si̍t, “wonton dumpling”, literally “flattened food; flat and thin food”), according to Manuel (1948), which he described as “[pán(cook rice to make noodle)-sit(food, meal), meat-balls sautéd with noodle.]”. Attested in the Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum (1626-1642) as “empanadas 扁食 paǹ sit᷾ pièn sit̄”,^([sic]) likely referring to dumplings which its cooking…
köken: Borrowed from Arabic الْإِطْرِيَة (al-ʔiṭriya) via Andalusian Arabic, from Aramaic אִטְרִיתָא (ʾiṭrīṯā), from Ancient Greek ἴτριον (ítrion). Compare Spanish aletría.
sevai (a kind of vermicelli made of wheat-flour and boiled in milk and sugar)
çekim: çoğul सेवँइयाँ
köken: Etymology tree Akkadian 𒆠𒅔𒆠𒅔𒄯𒄯der. Sanskrit समिता (samitā) Prakrit 𑀲𑀫𑀺𑀆 (samiā) Hindi सेवँई Inherited from Prakrit 𑀲𑀫𑀺𑀅 (samia, “kind of food”), 𑀲𑀫𑀺𑀆 (samiā, “wheat flour”), from Sanskrit शमिता (śamitā, “rice powder”), समिता (samitā, “wheat flour”), which in turn was borrowed from Akkadian 𒆠𒅔𒆠𒅔𒄯𒄯. Compare the later Sanskrit सेविका (sevikā, “sevai”). Doublet of सेविका (sevikā) and सेव (sev).