botifarra

English

Alternative forms

• butifarra

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan botifarra.

Noun

botifarra (plural botifarras)

1. A spiced pork sausage typical of Catalan cuisine.
   • 2015 April 17, Lisa Abend, “Sweet and Salty: Majorca’s Traditional Cuisine”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     He squeezed oranges for juice to go with the botifarra, a pork sausage spiced with cloves and cumin, and the spreadable sobrassada, tinted red from Majorcan paprika.

Further reading

• botifarra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

botifarra blanca

Etymology

From Late Latin buttis (“cask, wineskin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bu.tiˈfa.rə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [bo.tiˈfa.rə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [bo.tiˈfa.ra]

• Audio (Valencia):

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Noun

botifarra f (plural botifarres)

1. botifarra (spiced sausage)
2. (uncountable, card games) a Catalan card game
3. a Catalan hand gesture indicating disapproval

Derived terms

• botifarró

Descendants

• → Spanish: butifarra

Further reading

• “botifarra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “botifarra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “botifarra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “botifarra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• botifarra on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca
• botifarra (card game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia