Tabasco

See also tabasco

English

Map of Mexico highlighting Tabasco

Etymology

Either from a Nahuatl word meaning damp earth, or a Mayan term meaning our lord of eight lions.

Use of the term to refer to a hot sauce is a genericization of TABASCO, a trademarked brand of hot sauce produced by the US-based McIlhenny Company of Avery Island, Louisiana. The hot sauce is named after the tabasco pepper, which is named for the Mexican state.

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Proper noun

Tabasco

1. A state of Mexico.

Translations

state of Mexico

• Spanish: Tabasco (es) m

Noun

Tabasco (uncountable)

1. A spicy pepper sauce made from tabasco pepper (a chili pepper) with the addition of vinegar and salt.

   You better put some Tabasco on that.

Derived terms

• Tabasco sauce

Translations

spicy pepper sauce

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塔巴斯科辣椒醬 (cmn), 塔巴斯科辣椒酱 (cmn) (tǎbāsīkē làjiāojiàng)

• Finnish: tabascokastike (fi)

• Indonesian: tabasco (id)
• Marathi: टबास्को (mr) (ṭabāsko) m

See also

• Tabasco on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• abacost

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Spanish

Etymology

Nahuatl.

Proper noun

Tabasco m

1. A state of Mexico.

Related terms

• tabasqueño

See also

• Tabasco on the Spanish Wikipedia.es.Wikipedia