Talk:pastūsha

RFV discussion: December 2022–January 2023
A kind of food from Kuwait. Equinox ◑ 13:19, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
 * If it helps at all (and if it wasnt obvious), Im pretty sure the etymology of this word is from pistachio with the vowels of basbousa. In other words, replacing the Arabic b-s-b-s pattern with p-s-t-š, and having the vowels alone carry the meaning of sweet cake.  I've seen this type of word formation before but I don't know the name of it.  If nothing else, this could help us find the Arabic spelling and perhaps track down a much richer source of attestations that this means what we say it does. — Soap — 16:52, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Wouldn't the Arabic word be expected to be, since the word for pistachio is ? I tried searching for too, but didn't find it.
 * As for the English word, I can only find it on listicles and recipe-sharing websites, some of which seem to be copied from each other. 98.170.164.88 23:19, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * RFV-failed. As IP says, not even the Arabic can be found, and I have tried various forms from which this may have been unfortunately corrupted. It should have been speedied back in the day as creative invention or protologism or the like, the typical stuff that gets added to the all-knowing trash heap about so mean a matter like food, in combination with the disapproved method of just looking into Wikipedia having been applied for adding the word. Fay Freak (talk) 13:45, 17 January 2023 (UTC)