tortilla

See also: Tortilla

English

flour tortillas (1)

Spanish omelette (2)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tortilla.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɔːˈtijə/, /tɔːˈti.ə/

  • Audio (UK)

    (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /tɔɹˈti.ə/, /tɔɹˈtijə/, [tɔɹˈtʰijə]
• Rhymes: -iːə

Noun

tortilla (plural tortillas)

1. (Mexican cuisine) A flat round bread made out of cornmeal or flour.
   • 2001, Rafaela Castro, Chicano Folklore, Oxford University Press (→ISBN), page 230:

     From this dough are shaped small round forms, or a tortilla press can be used to more easily flatten many perfectly round, thin cakes. Tortilla machines, found all over Mexico and the Southwest, can produce hundreds of tortillas per hour.

2. (Spanish cuisine) Spanish omelette; an omelette containing potatoes and onions.
   • 2004, The Student Cookbook, Hachette UK (→ISBN)

     An authentic Spanish tortilla is traditionally made with just eggs, potatoes, onions, salt and pepper, but this version contains sliced red and green peppers for a bit of extra colour and flavour.

Translations

a flat round bread

• Arabic: فطيرة الدقيق. فطيرة الذرى‎ f (fatirat addakik, fatirat athoura), ملاوي‎ f (m'lawi (Tunisian dialect)), فطيرة الدقيق. فطيرة الذرى‎ f (fatirat addakik, fatirat a'thoura), فطيرة الدقيق. فطيرة الذرى‎ f (fatirat addakik, fatirat a'thoura)

  Hijazi Arabic: تورتيا‎ f (tōrtiyya)

• Bulgarian: тортиля f (tortilja)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 墨西哥薄餅, 墨西哥薄饼 (Mòxīgē báobǐng)

• Esperanto: tortiljo
• Estonian: tortilla (et)
• Finnish: tortilla (fi)
• Galician: tortilla de fariña de trigo f, tortilla de fariña f, tortilla de trigo f
• German: Tortilla (de) f
• Greek: τορτίγια (el) (tortígia)
• Guerrero Amuzgo: cha
• Interlingua: tortilla
• Japanese: トルティーヤ (torutīya)
• Maltese: tortilla f
• Nahuatl:

  Classical: tlaxcalli

  Central: tlaxcalli

  Guerrero: tlaxkajli

  Highland Puebla: taxcal

  Mecayapan: táxcal

  Michoacán: laxcali

  Morelos: tlaxkale

  Northern Puebla: tlaxcali

  Tetelcingo: tlaxcali̱

  Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla : tlaxcal

• Navajo: náneeskaadí
• Polish: tortilla (pl) f
• Portuguese: tortilha (pt) f
• Russian: торти́лья (ru) f (tortílʹja)
• Spanish: tortilla de harina de trigo f, tortilla de harina f, tortilla de trigo f, tortilla (es) f
• Swedish: tortilla (sv) c, tortillabröd n
• Turkish: lavaş (tr)
• Tz'utujil: aawaay, way
• Tzotzil: vaj
• Yucatec Maya: waaj
• Zapotec:

  Choapan yëta

  Isthmus gueta

Spanish omelette — see Spanish omelette

Further reading

• tortilla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• littoral

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtortilːɑ/, [ˈt̪o̞rt̪ilːɑ]
• Rhymes: -ortilːɑ
• Syllabification: tor‧til‧la

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish tortilla.

Noun

tortilla

1. tortilla
2. a tortilla-based dish; a burrito

Declension

Inflection of tortilla (Kotus type 13/katiska, no gradation)
nominative		tortilla	tortillat
genitive		tortillan	tortilloiden tortilloitten tortillojen
partitive		tortillaa	tortilloita tortilloja
illative		tortillaan	tortilloihin
		singular	plural
nominative		tortilla	tortillat
accusative	nom.	tortilla	tortillat
	gen.	tortillan
genitive		tortillan	tortilloiden tortilloitten tortillojen tortillainrare
partitive		tortillaa	tortilloita tortilloja
inessive		tortillassa	tortilloissa
elative		tortillasta	tortilloista
illative		tortillaan	tortilloihin
adessive		tortillalla	tortilloilla
ablative		tortillalta	tortilloilta
allative		tortillalle	tortilloille
essive		tortillana	tortilloina
translative		tortillaksi	tortilloiksi
instructive		—	tortilloin
abessive		tortillatta	tortilloitta
comitative		—	tortilloineen

Possessive forms of tortilla (type katiska)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	tortillani	tortillamme
2nd person	tortillasi	tortillanne
3rd person	tortillansa

Derived terms

• maissitortilla
• vehnätortilla

Etymology 2

Noun

tortilla

1. adessive singular of tortti

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔʁ.ti.ja/

• Audio

  (file)

Verb

tortilla

1. third-person singular past historic of tortiller

Anagrams

• littoral

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Galician

Spanish omelette

Omelette

Etymology

From Spanish tortilla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toɾˈtiʎa/

Noun

tortilla f (plural tortillas)

1. Spanish omelette, tortilla
2. omelette
3. (rare) tortilla

Synonyms

• (Spanish omelette) tortilla de patacas, tortilla española
• (omelette) tortilla francesa
• (tortilla) tortilla de fariña de trigo, tortilla de fariña, tortilla de trigo

Related terms

• tortillera
• tortillería

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tortilla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔrˈtil.la/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -illa
• Syllabification: tor‧til‧la

Noun

tortilla f

1. tortilla (flat round bread)
2. Spanish omelette

Declension

Declension of tortilla

	singular	plural
nominative	tortilla	tortille
genitive	tortilli	tortilli
dative	tortilli	tortillom
accusative	tortillę	tortille
instrumental	tortillą	tortillami
locative	tortilli	tortillach
vocative	tortillo	tortille

Further reading

• tortilla in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tortilla in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Spanish

Spanish omelette

Omelette

Tortilla (flour tortilla)

Etymology

From Old Spanish tortiella, diminutive of torta (“round flatbread”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /toɾˈtiʝa/, [t̪oɾˈt̪i.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /toɾˈtiʝa/, [t̪oɾˈt̪i.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /toɾˈtiʎa/, [t̪oɾˈt̪i.ʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /toɾˈtiʃa/, [t̪oɾˈt̪i.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /toɾˈtiʒa/, [t̪oɾˈt̪i.ʒa]

Noun

tortilla f (plural tortillas)

1. (Spain and most Hispanic countries) Spanish omelette, tortilla

   Synonyms: (Spain) tortilla de patatas, (Hispanic America, Canary Islands) tortilla de papas, tortilla española

2. (Spain and most Hispanic countries) omelette

   Synonym: tortilla francesa

3. (Mexico and Central America) tortilla

   Synonyms: tortilla de harina de trigo, tortilla de harina, tortilla de trigo

Derived terms

• tortilla payesa

Related terms

• tortillera
• tortillería

Descendants

• → English: tortilla
• → Finnish: tortilla
• → Galician: tortilla
• → German: Tortilla
• → Polish: tortilla

Further reading

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