• ① wheat-flour hasty pudding (syn κουρκούτι, χυλός):
  • gnom οπού καή στην ~ φυσά και το γιαούρτι the one who has suffered from sth becomes irrationally overcautious about other matters |
  • η ~ καθούμενη κι ο χόντρος έμπα κ' έβγα bulgur is more digestible than alevryá

• ② region. dish made of cracked wheat, bulgur (syn μπλουγούρι)

• ③ region. must pie (syn μουσταλευριά, μουστόπιτα)

[the word, recorded also in Somavera, fr MG αλευρέα (Du Cange; now dial in Karpathos, αλιβρέ in Lesbos), for *αλευραία πίττα, the adj being der of άλευρον 'flour'; cf also αλευραία (Pontic) & -ραί (Cretan) 'smell of flour' fr *αλευραία οσμή]