enchilada

English

Enchiladas with mole sauce

Etymology

From Spanish enchilada, past participle of enchilar (“to add chili pepper to”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɛn.t͡ʃɪˈlɑ.də/

  • Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -ɑːdə

Noun

enchilada (plural enchiladas)

1. A Mexican dish made by wrapping a filling in a tortilla, then baking in a sauce.

Derived terms

• big enchilada
• whole enchilada
• enchalupa
• enchirito

Translations

Mexican dish

• Galician: enchilada (gl) f
• German: Enchilada f
• Nahuatl:
  • Central: tlaxcalchilatl
• Polish: enchilada (pl) f
• Spanish: enchiladas (es) f

Further reading

• enchilada on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Etymology

From Spanish enchilada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈentʃilɑdɑ/, [ˈe̞n̪t̪ʃiˌlɑdɑ]

Noun

enchilada

1. enchilada

Declension

Inflection of enchilada (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		enchilada	enchiladat
genitive		enchiladan	enchiladojen
partitive		enchiladaa	enchiladoja
illative		enchiladaan	enchiladoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		enchilada	enchiladat
accusative	nom.	enchilada	enchiladat
	gen.	enchiladan
genitive		enchiladan	enchiladojen enchiladainrare
partitive		enchiladaa	enchiladoja
inessive		enchiladassa	enchiladoissa
elative		enchiladasta	enchiladoista
illative		enchiladaan	enchiladoihin
adessive		enchiladalla	enchiladoilla
ablative		enchiladalta	enchiladoilta
allative		enchiladalle	enchiladoille
essive		enchiladana	enchiladoina
translative		enchiladaksi	enchiladoiksi
instructive		—	enchiladoin
abessive		enchiladatta	enchiladoitta
comitative		—	enchiladoineen

Possessive forms of enchilada (type kala)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	enchiladani	enchiladamme
2nd person	enchiladasi	enchiladanne
3rd person	enchiladansa

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ent͡ʃiˈlada/ [ẽnʲ.t͡ʃiˈla.ð̞a]

• Audio (Spain)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: en‧chi‧la‧da

Noun

enchilada f (plural enchiladas)

1. (Mexico) a meal consisting of rolled tortillas baked in a chile sauce, comes in several variations
2. (Costa Rica) a kind of spicy empanada sold in bakeries

Descendants

• → English: enchilada

Adjective

enchilada f sg

1. feminine singular of enchilado

Participle

enchilada f sg

1. feminine singular of enchilado

Further reading

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