botifarra

English

Alternative forms

• butifarra

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan botifarra.

Noun

botifarra (plural botifarras)

1. A spiced pork sausage typical of Catalan cuisine.
   • 2015 April 17, Lisa Abend, “Sweet and Salty: Majorca’s Traditional Cuisine”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     He squeezed oranges for juice to go with the botifarra, a pork sausage spiced with cloves and cumin, and the spreadable sobrassada, tinted red from Majorcan paprika.

Further reading

• botifarra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

botifarra blanca

Etymology

From Late Latin buttis (“cask, wineskin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Central) [bu.tiˈfa.rə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [bo.tiˈfa.rə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [bo.tiˈfa.ra]

• Audio (Valencia):

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Noun

botifarra f (plural botifarres)

1. botifarra (spiced sausage)
2. (uncountable, card games) a Catalan card game
3. a Catalan hand gesture indicating disapproval

Derived terms

• botifarró

Descendants

• → Spanish: butifarra

Further reading

• “botifarra”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “botifarra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “botifarra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “botifarra”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
• botifarra on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca
• botifarra (card game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Etymology

augmentative of bota (“boot”)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /bo.t͡ʃiˈfa.ʁɐ/ [bo.t͡ʃiˈfa.hɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /bo.t͡ʃiˈfa.ʁɐ/ [bo.t͡ʃiˈfa.hɐ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /bo.t͡ʃiˈfa.ʁɐ/ [bo.t͡ʃiˈfa.χɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /bo.t͡ʃiˈfa.ʁa/ [bo.t͡ʃiˈfa.ha]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bu.tiˈfa.ʁɐ/

• Hyphenation: bo‧ti‧far‧ra

Noun

botifarra f (plural botifarras)

1. (colloquial) thick and large boot

References

• “botifarra”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “botifarra”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “botifarra”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “botifarra” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913