# sikbaj

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A dish of meat cooked or marinated in vinegar and often also honey, eaten since at least the sixth century and historically popular among Arabs and Persians.

## Etymology
From Arabic سِكْبَاج (sikbāj), Middle Persian [script needed] (*sḵbʾk' /⁠*sikbāg⁠/, literally “vinegar soup”). Doublet of escabeche.

## Source
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