chalupa

See also: Chalupa, chałupa, Chałupa, chałupą, and Chałupą

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish chalupa. Doublet of shallop.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃəˈluːpə/

Noun

chalupa (plural chalupas)

1. A shallop from Xochimilco.
2. A specialty food of south-central Mexico, consisting of a bowl-shaped fried tortilla stuffed with chopped meat, lettuce, cheese, etc.
   • 2018, Dotty Griffith, The Ultimate Tortilla Press Cookbook, page 116:

     The Tex-Mex–style chalupas I'm most familiar with are built on flat, crisp-fried corn tortillas.

   • 2021 May 6, Lyda Jones Burnette, “Shrimp Chalupas”, in Country Living Magazine:

     (see title)

   • 2021 December 6, Hannah Albertine, Nikko Duren, & Carlo Mantuano, “NYC’s Best New Dishes Of 2021”, in The Infatuation:

     The tortillas for the chalupas are cooked in pork lard on a charcoal-fired comal, and they get doused with salsa, shredded pork, and onions.

Derived terms

• drop a chalupa
• quesalupa

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Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xalupa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈxalupa]

Noun

chalupa f

1. cottage; rural house

Declension

Declension of chalupa

	singular	plural
nominative	chalupa	chalupy
genitive	chalupy	chalup
dative	chalupě	chalupám
accusative	chalupu	chalupy
vocative	chalupo	chalupy
locative	chalupě	chalupách
instrumental	chalupou	chalupami

Derived terms

• chaloupka

Further reading

• chalupa in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• chalupa in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French chaloupe, likely from Old French eschalope (“shell”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃaˈlu.pɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃaˈlu.pɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃaˈlu.pa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃɐˈlu.pɐ/

• Hyphenation: cha‧lu‧pa

Noun

chalupa f (plural chalupas)

1. sloop (single-masted sailboat)

Adjective

chalupa m or f (plural chalupas)

1. (Portugal) crazy, mad

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Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xalupa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈxalupa]

Noun

chalupa f

1. cottage; rural house

Derived terms

• chalúpka
• chalúpočka
• chalúpčička
• chalupisko

References

• chalupa in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French chaloupe, from Old French eschalope (“shell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaˈlupa/ [t͡ʃaˈlu.pa]
• Rhymes: -upa
• Syllabification: cha‧lu‧pa

Noun

chalupa f (plural chalupas)

1. (nautical) shallop, sloop, launch (a kind of longboat)
2. (Chile) flip-flop, slipper, sandal
3. (Mexico) two-man canoe
4. (Mexico) a chalupa (bowl-shaped fried tortilla stuffed with chopped meat, lettuce, cheese, etc.)
5. (Mexico, slang) fat girl

Descendants

• → English: chalupa

Further reading

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