DONBA

 

DONBA, the fatty part of the sheep’s tail, traditionally used as a cooking fat, sometimes in melted form, or as an inexpensive meat substitute. Nowadays it is less frequently used because of the harmful effects of animal fat.

 

Bibliography:

Mīrzā ʿAlī-Akbar Ašpāz-bāšī, Sofra-ye aṭʿema, Tehran, 1353 Š./1974, pp. 27, 51, 56.

Ḥājī Mohammad-ʿAli Bāvarčī Baḡdādī, Kār-nāma dar bāb-e ṭabbāḵī wa ṣanʿat-e ān, in Ī. Afšār, ed., Ašpāzī-e dawra-ye ṣāfawī. Matn-e do resāla az ān dawra, Tehran, 1360 Š./1981, pp. 53, 54, 62.

A. Mīrzāyef, Abū Esḥāq wa faʿʿālīyat-e adabī-e ū, Dushanbe, 1971.

(M. R. Ghanoonparvar)

Originally Published: December 15, 1995

Last Updated: November 29, 2011

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