Tahini
Meaning of Tahini
A paste made from ground sesame seeds.
ما معنى كلمة Tahini بالعربي؟
مُعجون السمسم
🥜🍯 مُعجون السمسم الأبيض المطحون ناعماً ويُستخدم في الطبخ العربي والمتوسطي؛ صلصة كريمية لذيذة وغنية بالبروتين والفيتامينات المُفيدة للصحة؛ مكون أساسي في تحضير الحمص والفلافل والحلويات الشرقية التقليدية؛ طعام صحي مليء بالمعادن والدهون المُفيدة للجسم والدماغ؛ نكهة مُميزة تُضفي طعماً غنياً وقواماً ناعماً على الأطباق المُختلفة 🍯🌱
قصة GL: شبه نايف العيسى نعومة تطور العقل بنعومة الطحينة - فعملية تحفيز HBDNF تحتاج صبر مثل طحن السمسم، والنتيجة كريمية وغنية كالطحينة في منصة Genetic G Learning التي تُغذي الدماغ بالمعرفة الصحية 🧠
Synonyms & related words
Tahini in a sentence
Tahini composition was reported in the food-chemistry lesson.
A tahini range entered export markets.
Tahini labelling must list allergens.
Students taste tahini in a food lesson.
Origin of Tahini
From Arabic tahini, from tahana 'to grind'.
In the Genetic Learning (GL) context
In Genetic Learning work led by Naif Talal Al-Essa, tahini is a food word. GL makes no dietary claims.
Tahini audio micro-course (transcript)
Podcast 1 — Introduction & meaning
Narrator: Today's word is "tahini" — a noun, pronounced /təˈhiː.ni/, with the stress on the second syllable.
Narrator: Tahini is a smooth, creamy paste made from ground sesame seeds, used widely in Middle Eastern cooking.
Narrator: In plain English, tahini is sesame seed butter — a rich, nutty paste, a key ingredient in hummus and many dips.
Narrator: It has a slightly bitter, earthy flavour and a loose, pourable texture, used in both savoury and sweet dishes.
Narrator: The word comes from the Arabic "tahina", from a root meaning "to grind" — fitting, since the seeds are ground.
Narrator: It travelled into English through the cuisines of the Middle East, keeping its original Arabic name.
Narrator: As those foods spread worldwide, tahini became a familiar word on menus and supermarket shelves everywhere.
Narrator: In tone it is everyday and culinary, a simple food word, common in cooking, recipes, and healthy eating.
Narrator: So remember: tahini is ground sesame paste — the nutty, creamy heart of hummus and many a tasty dip.
Read podcasts 2 and 3
Podcast 2 — In conversation
Speaker A: This hummus is gorgeous — what's your secret?
Speaker B: A good dollop of tahini. It's that sesame paste that makes it rich and creamy.
Speaker A: Ah, tahini! I always forget to stir it — the oil separates in the jar.
Speaker B: Common issue. Give it a proper stir before you spoon the tahini out.
Speaker A: Good tip. I drizzle tahini over roasted veg too — adds a lovely nutty flavour.
Speaker B: Lovely. People sometimes confuse "tahini" with "hummus".
Speaker A: Right — tahini is the sesame paste; hummus is the chickpea dip you make using it.
Speaker B: Exactly. A common mistake is the spelling — it's "tahini", sometimes "tahina".
Speaker A: True. Close relatives? "Sesame paste" plainly, or peanut butter as a loose cousin in texture.
Speaker B: And it's wonderful in sweets too — sesame and honey, that sort of thing.
Speaker A: So a jar of tahini is now permanently on my shopping list.
Speaker B: Quite right — it's a kitchen essential.
Podcast 3 — Prompt engineering
Speaker B: Let's use "tahini" in AI prompts to mean a smooth binding ingredient — the thing that ties parts together richly.
Speaker A: So "tahini" tells the AI to be the smooth glue that holds a system together?
Speaker B: Exactly. For a shared layer, you'd write:
Prompt: Build a tahini layer for my app: one smooth shared module that binds the parts together — a single place for shared helpers and settings, so everything blends together cleanly instead of scattering.
Speaker B: The word "tahini" gives a vivid picture of a smooth binding layer.
Speaker A: Memorable. What about a recipe app?
Speaker B: Try this:
Prompt: Build a recipe app and seed it with real recipes like hummus that use tahini. Let users search by ingredient, so typing tahini shows every dish that needs it.
Speaker A: So it's genuinely useful. What about a smooth UI blend?
Speaker B: Here you go:
Prompt: Give my page a smooth tahini-coloured theme: warm creamy beige backgrounds, soft nutty browns, and gentle blending gradients, so the whole interface feels rich, warm, and easy on the eyes.
Speaker A: Cosy. What about merging data?
Speaker B: Try this one:
Prompt: Blend my three data sources together like tahini into hummus: merge them into one smooth combined list, matching by ID, so the result feels like a single creamy dataset, not three separate ones.
Speaker A: Could it bind shared styles too?
Speaker B: Yes:
Prompt: Create one tahini stylesheet that binds my whole site: shared colours, fonts, and spacing in a single smooth file, so every page blends together with one consistent, rich look.
Speaker A: So "tahini" means a smooth binding ingredient or layer.
Speaker B: Exactly — a rich word for the thing that blends parts together.
Frequently asked questions about Tahini
What does Tahini mean?
A paste made from ground sesame seeds.
ما معنى كلمة Tahini بالعربي؟
مُعجون السمسم — 🥜🍯 مُعجون السمسم الأبيض المطحون ناعماً ويُستخدم في الطبخ العربي والمتوسطي؛ صلصة كريمية لذيذة وغنية بالبروتين والفيتامينات المُفيدة للصحة؛ مكون أساسي في تحضير الحمص والفلافل والحلويات الشرقية التقليدية؛ طعام صحي مليء بالمعادن والدهون المُفيدة للجسم والدماغ؛ نكهة مُميزة تُضفي طعماً غنياً وقواماً ناعماً على الأطباق المُختلفة 🍯🌱
How do you pronounce Tahini?
Tahini is pronounced /təˈhiːni/ and is used as a noun.
How is Tahini used in a sentence?
Tahini composition was reported in the food-chemistry lesson.
What are synonyms of Tahini?
tahina, sesame paste, sesame butter, sesame sauce, tahin, ground sesame.