tamale

Significado (Inglés)

A Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks.

Sinónimos

imbroglio

tortilla

Traducións

tamal

Tamal

Maismehltasche

tamale

tamal

humita

Tamal

tortilla

bollo de maíz tierno

humita

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تامال

huma

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tamal

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/təˈmɑ.li/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Back-formation from the plural tamales, derived from Latin American Spanish tamales, plural of tamal, derived from Nahuatl tamalli (“wrapped”), derived from Proto-Uto-Aztecan [Term?]. Compare O'odham čïmait (“tortilla”), Hopi tïma (“stone griddle for cooking corn flatbread”), Ute tïʔma- (“to roast under ashes”).