HajDob

leg (served as food) [older or upper-class word]

Part of speech

noun

Pronunciation

xɑd͡ʒɖob

Sound out HajDob letter by letter:

• Hxharsh h, as in Scottish 'loch' or German 'Bach'
• aɑa as in 'father'
• jd͡ʒj as in 'junk'
• Dɖretroflex d (tongue curled back)
• ooo as in 'go'
• bbb as in 'bay'

• The archaic words tend to come up in conversations about food. For example, the usual word for the leg of an animal, when prepared as food, is gham (limb), the same word used for the leg of the living animal. A leg served as food at a banquet in an upper-class household, however, is likely to be called a HajDob, an old word for limb. [KGT pp.41--42]

• gham — limb (of an animal)
• 'uS — leg

KGT

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