pupusa
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Spanish pupusa, from Pipil pupusawa (“swollen”).
Noun[edit]
pupusa (plural pupusas)
- A thick, hand-rolled maize tortilla.
See also[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Pipil pupusawa (“swollen”). However, linguist Alan King, who has worked on Pipil Nawat, asserts this word is spurious, invented by Salvadoran linguist Pedro Geoffroy Rivas. The word is also absent from Lyle Campbell's lexicon.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pupusa f (plural pupusas)
- (Central America) a stuffed tortilla
- (Central America, vulgar, slang) pussy, vulva
Descendants[edit]
- → English: pupusa
Further reading[edit]
- “pupusa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- en:El Salvador
- en:Maize (food)
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- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/usa
- Rhymes:Spanish/usa/3 syllables
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- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
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- Central American Spanish
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- es:El Salvador