botana
See also: Botana
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
botana (plural botanas)
- A Mexican appetiser.
- 1988 June 3, Lawrence Rand, “Restaurant Tours: 21 years in a Mexican standby”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- The guacamole and queso fundido (melted cheese with a slathering of chorizo sausage on top, spooned onto sections of flour tortilla) are excellent, and two botanas (assortments) offer items like chalupas (small crisp tortillas) not always found on Chicago menus.
Anagrams edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From bota (“wineskin”).
Noun edit
botana f (plural botanas)
Descendants edit
- → English: botana
Further reading edit
- “botana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014