tahini

1. 1.

   a thick Middle Eastern paste made from ground sesame seeds

   Broaderspread

Other forms of tahini

plural

tahinis·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tahini

What does tahini mean?

tahini means "a thick Middle Eastern paste made from ground sesame seeds".

How many syllables are in tahini?

tahini has 3 syllables and divides as ta-hi-ni under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.