text: The samosa ()in South Asia Bashkir: Singara, Punjabi: smosa, Gujarati: sumosa, Tamil: சமோசா, Hindi: samosa), sambusak (Arabic: سمبوسك‎), samsa () or somsa in Turkic Central Asia (Kyrgyz: самса, IPA: /sɑmsɑ́/; Kazakh: самса, IPA: /sɑmsɑ́/, Uzbek: somsa, IPA: /sɒmsa/), sambusa among Arabs, Ethiopians, Somalis (Somali: sambuusa) and Tajiks (Tajik: самбӯса), sanbusa among Iranians (Persian: سنبوسه), samuza (Burmese: ဆမူစာ) among Burmese or chamuça in the Lusophone world, is a stuffed patty and a popular snack in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, throughout the Mediterranean (Greece), Southwest Asia, the Horn of Africa and North Africa.