Tursu

Torshi (Egyptian Arabic: ترشى torshi, Persian: ترشى torshi; Kurdish: ترشى Tirşîn, tirşî; Turkish:turşu; Greek:τουρσί toursi; Bulgarian:туршия turshiya; Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian: turšija/туршија ; Albanian: turshi Hebrew: חמוצים, khamusim) are the pickled vegetables of the cuisines of many Balkan and Middle East countries. The word turşu comes from torshi which comes from torsh, which means 'sour' in Persian and Kurdish. In Turkic languages such as Turkish and Azerbaijani it means the same thing but it is pronounced as Turşu.