empanada

See also: empañada

English

Etymology

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

Noun

empanada (plural empanadas)

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

Translations

stuffed pastry

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

See also

• empanada on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Galician

Slices of Galician empanada, ready to be served

Empanada de millo ("maize pie")

Etymology

From Old Galician and 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

Verb

empanada f sg

1. feminine singular past participle of empanar

See also

• empanada on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

References

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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “enpanada”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “empanada”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Portuguese

Verb

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Spanish

Etymology

From empanar (“to bread”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /empaˈnada/ [ẽm.paˈna.ð̞a]

Noun

empanada f (plural empanadas)

1. empanada
2. (colloquial) fraud

Derived terms

• empanada arreglada
• empanadilla

Descendants

• → English: empanada

Adjective

empanada f sg

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine singular of adjective empanado.

Verb

empanada f sg

1. Template:es-verb form of/participle empanar.

Further reading

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