jambalaya

English

Etymology

From Louisiana Creole jambalaya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌd͡ʒæmbəˈlaɪə/, /ˌd͡ʒʌmbəˈlaɪə/
• Rhymes: -aɪə

Noun

jambalaya (countable and uncountable, plural jambalayas)

1. Any of various of rice-based dishes common in Louisiana Cajun or Creole cooking; most often with shrimp, oysters, chicken or ham.

Derived terms

• pastalaya

Translations

rice-based dish from Louisiana

• Arabic: جَامْبَالَايَا f (jāmbālāyā)
• Catalan: jambalaia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 什錦飯 / 什锦饭 (shíjǐn fàn)

• French: jambalaya (fr) m
• German: Jambalaya f
• Greek: τζαμπαλάγια f (tzampalágia)
• Hebrew: גָ׳מְבָּלָיָה f (jambaláyah)
• Indonesian: jambalaya
• Italian: jambalaya f
• Japanese: ジャンバラヤ (janbaraya)
• Korean: 잠발라야 (jamballaya)
• Louisiana Creole: jambalaya
• Occitan: jambalaià m
• Portuguese: jambalaia f
• Russian: джамбала́йя (ru) f (džambalájja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: jambalaya (sh) f

• Spanish: jambalaya (es) f
• Swedish: jambalaya c

See also

• jambalaya on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Uncertain: probably from Provençal/Old Occitan jambalaia.

Noun

jambalaya m (plural jambalayas)

1. (Louisiana) jambalaya (rice-based dish from Louisiana)
2. (Louisiana) a mixture of foods of any kind

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism, from Louisiana Creole [Term?].

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒambaˈlaja/ [d͡ʒam.baˈla.ja]
• Rhymes: -aja
• Syllabification: jam‧ba‧la‧ya

Noun

jambalaya (plural jambalaya-jambalaya)

1. (cooking) jambalaya

Further reading

• “jambalaya”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
• Tantri Miharti; Kurniawati; Dewi Eka Arini Algozi (2019), Kamus Tata Boga [Culinary Arts Dictionary] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan Bahasa dan Perbukuan, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN

Louisiana Creole

Etymology

Uncertain. Probably from Provençal/Old Occitan jambalaia. Folk etymology derived it from jamb (“leg”) + paella. Other theories relate it to giblet.

See Wikipedia article for possible folk etymologies.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒɑ̃.ba.laˈja/
• Rhymes: -a

Noun

jambalaya

1. jambalaya (rice-based dish from Louisiana)