sopaipilla

English

A plate of Chilean sopaipillas topped with a sugar syrup, honey, and spices

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish sopaipilla.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːə

Noun

sopaipilla (plural sopaipillas)

1. A small, crisp, puffy, deep-fried pastry often served with honey.

Spanish

Etymology

Diminutive of sopaipa.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sopaiˈpiʝa/ [so.pai̯ˈpi.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /sopaiˈpiʝa/ [so.pai̯ˈpi.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /sopaiˈpiʎa/ [so.pai̯ˈpi.ʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /sopaiˈpiʃa/ [so.pai̯ˈpi.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /sopaiˈpiʒa/ [so.pai̯ˈpi.ʒa]

 

• Rhymes: -iʝa

• (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -iʝa
• (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -iʎa
• (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -iʃa
• (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -iʒa

• Syllabification: so‧pai‧pi‧lla

Noun

sopaipilla f (plural sopaipillas)

1. sopaipilla

Further reading

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