In honor of Thanksgiving, let’s talk turkey. The bird that goes so well with cranberry sauce is known in Hebrew as tarnegol hodu (tar-ne-GOAL HO-doo), which means “Indian chicken.”
Word of the Day / Tarnegol hodu תרנגול הודו
Across the United States today, families will be consuming a bird of many national origins. Though deemed 'turkey' in English, a reference to the country, in Hebrew the same bird is more at home in India.
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