tortilla

English

Wikipedia

flour tortillas

Etymology

Borrowing from Spanish (Mexican) tortilla.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /tɔɹˈtijə/, [tɔɹˈtʰijə]

Noun

tortilla (plural tortillas)

1. (Mexico) A flat round bread made out of cornmeal or flour. In Mexican cuisine they are often served with a filling or topping such as frijoles "beans", carne "meat", salsa "sauce", sour cream and cheese, in which case they are called quesadillas.
2. (Spain) Spanish omelette; an omelette containing potatoes and onions

Translations

a flat round bread

• Amuzgo: cha
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 墨西哥薄餅 (cmn), 墨西哥薄饼 (cmn) (Mòxīgē báobǐng)

• Finnish: tortilla (fi)
• Interlingua: tortilla (ia)

• Isthmus Zapotec: gueta
• Japanese: トルティーヤ (ja) (torutīya)
• Maltese: tortilla (mt) f
• Russian: тортилья (ru) (tortilʹja) m (tortilia) f
• Spanish: tortilla (es) f
• Tz'utujil: aawaay, way

Anagrams

• littoral

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Finnish

Noun

tortilla

1. tortilla

Declension

Declension of tortilla (type katiska) singular plural nominative tortilla tortillat genitive tortillan tortilloiden tortilloitten tortillojen tortillain1 partitive tortillaa tortilloita tortilloja accusative tortilla tortillan tortillat inessive tortillassa tortilloissa elative tortillasta tortilloista illative tortillaan tortilloihin adessive tortillalla tortilloilla ablative tortillalta tortilloilta allative tortillalle tortilloille essive tortillana tortilloina translative tortillaksi tortilloiksi instructive – tortilloin abessive tortillatta tortilloitta comitative – tortilloineen 1) Rare.

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French

Verb

tortilla

1. third-person singular past historic of tortiller

Anagrams

• littoral

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Spanish

Etymology

Diminutive of torta.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /toɾˈtiʎa/

Noun

tortilla f (plural tortillas)

1. (Spain and most Hispanic countries) omelette
2. (Mexico and Central America) tortilla

Related terms

• tortillera
• tortillería