Pastirma
Overview
 
Pastirma or bastirma is a highly seasoned, air-dried cured beef in the cuisines of the former Ottoman countries
Ottoman cuisine
Ottoman cuisine is the cuisine of the Ottoman Empire and its successors in Anatolia, the Balkans, and much of the Middle East.- Description :...

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The name bastirma is from (pressed meat). bastırma is the gerund
Gerund
In linguistics* As applied to English, it refers to the usage of a verb as a noun ....

 of the verb bastırmak (bastırmak in modern Turkish), which means "to depress, restrain". The word is used with minor variants in the various languages of the region: , , , , Bosnian
Bosnian language
Bosnian is a South Slavic language, spoken by Bosniaks. As a standardized form of the Shtokavian dialect, it is one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina....

, Croatian
Croatian language
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 and Serbian
Serbian language
Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....

: pastrma, , or παστρουμάς (pastroumás), and .
 
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