Dolma is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Dolma meaning
Any of a family of stuffed vegetable dishes. The filling generally consists of rice, minced meat or grains, together with onion, herbs and spices.
Using Dolma
- The main meaning on this page is: Any of a family of stuffed vegetable dishes. The filling generally consists of rice, minced meat or grains, together with onion, herbs and spices.
- In the example corpus, dolma often appears in combinations such as: dolma is.
Context around Dolma
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 6 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dolma
- In this selection, "dolma" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 18.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, melon, apple, tenzin, tasted, doesn and travel stand out and add context to how "dolma" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include described above dolma with olive and dolma is the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dolma" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dolma
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The receptionist at Dolma doesn’t think so. (8 words)
Dolma is the name used for stuffed vegetables. (8 words)
For example, artichoke dolma (enginar dolması) is an Aegean region specialty. (11 words)
In fish restaurants, it is possible to find other fancy fish varieties like balık dolma (stuffed fish), balık iskender (inspired by İskender kebap ), fishballs or fish en papillote. (29 words)
Melon dolma along with quince or apple dolma was one of the palace's specialties (raw melon stuffed with minced meat, onion, rice, almonds, cooked in an oven). (28 words)
Dried fruit such as blackcurant; raisins, figs or cherries and cinnamon and alspice used to be added into the mixture to sweeten zeytinyağlı dolma in Ottoman cuisine. (27 words)
Example sentences (13)
Melon dolma along with quince or apple dolma was one of the palace's specialties (raw melon stuffed with minced meat, onion, rice, almonds, cooked in an oven).
The dolma tasted tinned but they are a nightmare to make from scratch.
A class-12 graduate, Tenzin Dolma, has recently ventured into a realm, which most would consider a no-go zone.
The receptionist at Dolma doesn’t think so.
Broke and begging on the streets, her family came across the charity who helped Dolma travel to America to seek medical attention in 1995.
Dolma is the name used for stuffed vegetables.
Dried fruit such as blackcurant; raisins, figs or cherries and cinnamon and alspice used to be added into the mixture to sweeten zeytinyağlı dolma in Ottoman cuisine.
Dried fruit, used in dolma, pilav, meat dishes and other desserts is also eaten with almonds or walnuts as a dessert.
For example, artichoke dolma (enginar dolması) is an Aegean region specialty.
However, dolma is not limited to these common types; many other vegetables and fruits are stuffed with a meat or rice mixture.
In fish restaurants, it is possible to find other fancy fish varieties like balık dolma (stuffed fish), balık iskender (inspired by İskender kebap ), fishballs or fish en papillote.
It is also used to stuff vegetables or is wrapped in grape leaves ( dolma ).
Like the vegetables cooked with olive oil as described above dolma with olive oil does not contain meat.
Common combinations with dolma
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- dolma is 2×