churro

English

churros with chocolate

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish churro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃʊɹ.oʊ/, /ˈtʃɜɹ.oʊ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃʊɹ.əʊ/

Noun

churro (plural churros)

1. A fried pastry from Spain, typically eaten as a dessert and with chocolate beverage.

Translations

fried pastry

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: churru (ast) m
• Basque: txurro
• Bulgarian: чуро m (čuro)
• Catalan: xurro m
• Cebuano: tsuro
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西班牙油條／西班牙油条, 西班牙油条 (Xībānyá yóutiáo), 西班牙遊得志／西班牙游得志, 西班牙游得志 (Xībānyá yóudézhì), 西班牙式炸小油條／西班牙式炸小油条, 西班牙式炸小油条 (Xībānyá shìzhà xiǎoyóutiáo), 巧羅絲／巧罗丝, 巧罗丝 (qiǎoluósī), 吉拿棒 (jínábàng), 裘若 (qiúruò)

• Estonian: churro (et)
• Finnish: churro (fi)
• French: chichi (fr) m, churro (fr) m
• Galician: churro (gl) m
• German: Churro m
• Greek: τσούρο n (tsoúro)

  Ancient: ἔγχυτος m (énkhutos)

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• Hebrew: צ׳ורוס m
• Italian: churro m
• Japanese: チュロ (churo), チュロス (churosu)
• Korean: 추로 (ko) (churo), 추로스 (churoseu)
• Latin: encytus m
• Malagasy: curo (mg)
• Persian: چورو (čuro)
• Portuguese: churro (pt) m
• Russian: чу́рро m (čúrro)
• Spanish: churro (es) m
• Swedish: churro (sv) c, churros (sv) c
• Thai: ชูร์โร (chuu roo)
• Ukrainian: чу́ро m (čúro)

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish churro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.ʁu/

Noun

churro m (plural churros)

1. churro (type of fried pastry)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃuro/ [ˈt͡ʃu.ro]

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic of the sound made by something frying.

Noun

churro m (plural churros)

1. churro (type of fried pastry)
2. (drugs, colloquial) joint (marijuana cigarette)
3. (colloquial) botched up artwork

Synonyms

• (fried pastry): cohombro, taco, (Seville, Huelva) calentito, (Jaén) tallo, (Granada, Málaga, Cádiz, Badajoz) tejeringo, (Córdoba) jeringo, (Madrid) porra
• (joint): canuto, porro
• (botched up artwork): chafa, chapuza

Derived terms

Derived terms

• churrascar
• churrasco
• churrera
• churrero

• churrería
• churrito

• (Chile) cortachurros
• irse a freír churros
• mezclar churras y merinas

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

churro (feminine churra, masculine plural churros, feminine plural churras)

1. (colloquial, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, of a person) attractive

Noun

churro m (plural churros)

1. (colloquial, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia) spunk, Adonis, beefcake (physically desirable man)

   Synonyms: guapo, guaperas, guapetón, mino