How to pronounce Toum

Toum is written ثوم where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /tuːm/. In plain English letters that is TOOM, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Toum?

Toum is a snack of Lebanon. People usually eat it as a snack. Its main ingredients are vegetables. It tastes savory.

Where Toum comes from

Toum is one of 13 signature dishes of Lebanon on this map.

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• Sfouf صفوف · Dessert · Lebanon

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• Meghli مغلي · Dessert · Lebanon

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• Layali Lubnan ليالي لبنان · Dessert · Lebanon

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• Shanklish شنكليش · Snack · Lebanon

  Shanklish is an aged cheese of cow's or sheep's milk from Levantine cooking.

• Tabbouleh تبولة · Main dish · Mount Lebanon

  In Lebanon tabbouleh is a salad of parsley, not of grain.

Food of Lebanon

Dishes like Toum in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Toum:

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• Pitaroudia πιταρούδια · Snack · Rhodes (South Aegean), Greece

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• Lyutenitsa лютеница · Snack · Plovdiv and Thrace, Bulgaria

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• Zacuscă · Snack · All Romania, Romania

  Zacuscă is a vegetable spread popular in Romania, Moldova and Hungary, where it is called zakuszka, and English sources say it originated in Romania.