English

Alternative forms

• kurabie (used of the Greek and Albanian versions of the cookie)
• ghorayebah, ghraybeh (used of Middle Eastern / Arabic version)
• kourabiedes, kourabiethes (used of the Greek version)

Noun

kurabiye ‎(plural kurabiyes)

1. (rare) A cookie, particularly a sweet (originally Middle Eastern, now also Turkish, Greek and Albanian) cookie, often made with almonds or hazelnuts.
   • 1992, Antony Sher, The indoor boy, page 68:

     'What a kurabiye, what a biscuit! Ha? Aren't you?' Gertjie freezes. Delican does the same, and they stay poised like this, reared like animals.

   • 1997, Esin Eden, Nicholas Stavroulakis, Salonika: A Family Cookbook, page 212:

     […] they tend to be given as gifts as well[,] hence one is usually eating someone else's kurabiyes and not one's own. The word itself is Arabic, as is the basic recipe though it has passed into the kitchen of Turks, Greeks, Armenians and Jews.

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic.

Noun

kurabiye

1. cookie, biscuit

Declension