alfajor

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish alfajor.

Noun

alfajor m (plural alfajores)

1. a popular confection in South America usually filled with caramel-like dulce de leche

Spanish

Spanish-style alfajores in Andalusia

Alternative forms

• alfaxor, alfaxur, faxor, alaxur, alexur, alejur (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish alfaxor, beginning as a more jammy food from Andalusian Arabic الْفَشُور (al-fašūr, “nectar, juice”), from Arabic أَفْشُرَج (ʔafšuraj, “juice”). Somewhere surely mixed up with alfaxú, alajú from حَشْو (ḥašw, “filling”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alfaˈxoɾ/ [al.faˈxoɾ]

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• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: al‧fa‧jor

Noun

alfajor m (plural alfajores)

1. (Spain) A popular confection in Andalusia usually made with honey, almonds, nuts, and spices such clove and coriander.
2. (Latin America) A popular confection in South America usually filled with dulce de leche.
   • 2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 109:

     In one hand I had the ukulele and the alfajor, in the other the joint.

Further reading

• “alfajor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• alfajor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• alfajor (España) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
• alfajor (Latinoamérica) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es