noun
Origin: E Yiddish pastrame < Pol bastramy, dried meat, ult. < Turk basdyrma
See pastrami in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun pl. pas·tra·mis
Origin:
Origin: Yiddish pastrame
Origin: , from Romanian pastramă
Origin: , from păstra, to preserve
Origin: , from Vulgar Latin *parsitāre, to spare, save
Origin: , from parsus
Origin: , past participle of Latin parcere, to be thrifty with
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