Name - Origin
Cypriot name of food
Ζορτοππέλαβα. Zortoppélava.
Greek name - description
Delicious and appetising dishes. When someone would finish eating and could not eat any more, he would say "zortoppelava if they are" Pharmakidou XP (2003, p. 254)
Additional information and bibliography
Time period
19th - 20th c.
Bibliography
Pharmakidou XP (1983). Glossary of Xenophon P. Pharmakidou, (Materials for the compilation of the Historical Dictionary of the Cypriot Dialect, part B', ed. Theophanos D. Kypri), Centre for Scientific Research, Nicosia, 2nd ed., 2003.
Researcher/Recorder
Stalo Lazarou