empanada

See also: empañada

English

Small empanadas from Spain

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish empanada, past participle of empanar (“to wrap in bread”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛmpəˈnɑːdə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːdə

Noun

empanada (plural empanadas)

1. Any of a variety of stuffed pastries found in Spanish, Filipino, and Latin American cuisine.

Related terms

• empanadilla

Translations

stuffed pastry

• Afrikaans: empanada
• Finnish: piirakka (fi), empanada (fi)
• Spanish: empanada (es) f

Further reading

• empanada on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Galician

Slices of Galician empanada, ready to be served

Empanada de millo ("maize pie")

Festa da Empanada ("pie fair"), Bandeira

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese enpãada, enpanada (13th century: Cantigas de Santa Maria), from *empãar (“to put into bread”). Perhaps under the influence of empanar (“to conceal”, literally “to put into a cloth”). Cognate with Portuguese empada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /empaˈnaða̝/

Noun

empanada f (plural empanadas)

1. (cooking) pie; traditional stuffed pastry usually composed of two crusts of fine bread and a filling of sauté of vegetables and either meat or fish

Related terms

• petada
• empanadilla
• empanar

Participle

empanada f sg

1. feminine singular of empanado

See also

• empanada on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

References

• “empanada” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “empaada” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “empanada” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “empanada” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “empanada” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Participle

empanada f sg

1. feminine singular of empanado

Spanish

Etymology

From empanar (“to bread”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /empaˈnada/ [ẽm.paˈna.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: em‧pa‧na‧da

Noun

empanada f (plural empanadas)

1. empanada
2. (colloquial) fraud

Derived terms

• empanada arreglada
• empanadilla

 

Descendants

• → Belizean Creole: panaades (from the plural form)
• → English: empanada

Adjective

empanada f sg

1. feminine singular of empanado

Participle

empanada f sg

1. feminine singular of empanado

Further reading

• “empanado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• impanada
• panada

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish empanada. Compare Manado Malay panada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔempaˈnada/, [ʔɛm.pɐˈna.dɐ]
• Hyphenation: em‧pa‧na‧da

Noun

empanada (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜋ᜔ᜉᜈᜇ)

1. empanada (especially Philippine varieties)