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Sumac

Rhus coriariaAlso called rhus coriaria

Sumac is a spice made from fruit. Cooks use it to season food.

Part used
Fruit
Family
Anacardiaceae
Cooked most in
Asia
Top country
Armenia
Sumac, whole

Photo: Miansari66 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use sumac

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Season

Around the world

Where sumac is cooked

1 dish in the catalogue uses sumac. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list sumac among their ingredients.

Origins

Native to
Southern Europe, Western Asia

On the table

Dishes made with sumac

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

  • Lula kebab

    Central Asia, Armenia, Azerbaijan

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include sumac.

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What sumac is called

Names in 55 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Rhus coriaria · Toxicodendron coriaria · Rhus amoena · Zumaque de tenerías

  • French

    Rhus coriaria · Sumac des corroyeurs · vinaigrier

  • Italian

    Rhus coriaria · Sommacco siciliano · Sommaco

  • Portuguese

    Rhus coriaria

  • German

    Gewürzsumach · Gerbersumach · Gerber-Sumach · Rhus coriaria

  • Dutch

    Sumak · Rhus coriaria

  • Greek

    Ρους ο βυρσοδεψικός

  • Turkish

    Sumak · Somak

  • Russian

    сумах дубильный · Rhus coriaria · cумах кожевенный · сумах итальянский

  • Polish

    sumak garbarski · Rhus coriaria

  • Arabic

    سماق الصباغين · سماق الدباغين · سماق · حشيشة الدباغين

  • Hebrew

    אוג הבורסקאים · סומק · Rhus coriaria

Show all 55 languages

  • Albanian

    Rhus coriaria

  • Aragonese

    Rhus coriaria

  • Armenian

    աղտոր սովորական · Սովորական աղտոր

  • Asturian

    Zumaque

  • Azerbaijani

    Aşı sumaq

  • Basque

    Rhus coriaria

  • Belarusian

    сумах звычайны

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    сумах гарбарскі · Rhus coriaria

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    Rhus coriaria

  • Bulgarian

    сумак · Rhus coriaria

  • Catalan

    sumac · sumac des corroyeurs

  • Cebuano

    Rhus coriaria

  • Chinese

    南欧盐麸木 · 西西里漆树

  • Croatian

    Mirisavi ruj

  • Czech

    škumpa koželužská

  • Danish

    Garve-Sumak · Rhus coriaria

  • Egyptian Arabic

    سماق الصباغين

  • Esperanto

    Rhus coriaria

  • Extremaduran

    Rhus coriaria

  • Finnish

    parkkisumakki

  • Galician

    Rhus coriaria

  • Georgian

    თუთუბო

  • Ido

    Rhus coriaria

  • Indonesian

    Sumak

  • Interlingua

    Rhus coriaria

  • Interlingue

    Rhus coriaria

  • Irish

    Rhus coriaria

  • Japanese

    スマック

  • Kabyle

    Taza

  • Korean

    무두붉나무

  • Latin

    Rhus coriaria

  • Lithuanian

    sumac des corroyeurs

  • Macedonian

    гроздест руј · мирислив руј · Rhus coriaria

  • Northern Frisian

    Rhus coriaria

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    Sumak

  • Occitan

    Rhus coriaria

  • Romanian

    Rhus coriaria · sumac

  • Serbian

    Гроздасти руј

  • Serbian (Cyrillic)

    Гроздасти руј

  • Serbian (Latin)

    Grozdasti ruj

  • Serbian (Latin)

    Grozdasti ruj

  • Swedish

    bärsumak · sumak · sumac des corroyeurs

  • Ukrainian

    сумах дубильний · Rhus coriaria

  • Upper Sorbian

    Garbarski sumak

  • Vietnamese

    Rhus coriaria

  • Volapük

    Rhus coriaria

  • Waray

    Rhus coriaria

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos
  • Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q159546

Photos

Photo: Miansari66 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons