: a small triangular pastry filled with spiced meat or vegetables and fried in ghee or oil
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The freezer aisles held burritos, samosas, spring rolls, vegetables, desserts and dumplings.—
Jenna Ebbers,
Kansas City Star,
27 June 2026 Spice Kabab also sells naan, curry, biryani, wraps and samosas, according to its online menu.—
Emma Hall,
Sacbee.com,
15 June 2026 The smaller bites have more personality, including samosas, fish croquettes, paneer with Szechuan-style heat and a modernized gajar ka halwa.—
Noel Burgess,
Forbes.com,
9 June 2026 Some hosts might add shingara, Bengali samosas, to their spread, or kochuri stuffed with a spicy potato curry.—
Madhushree Basu Roy,
Saveur,
30 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for samosa
Word History
Etymology
Hindi samosā & Urdu samosa, sambūsa, from Persian sambūsa