Wiktionary

empanada

See also: empañada

English

edit
 
Small empanadas from Spain

Etymology

edit

Borrowed from Spanish empanada, past participle of empanar (“to wrap in bread”).

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

empanada (plural empanadas)

  1. Any of a variety of stuffed pastries found in Spanish, Filipino, and Latin American cuisine.
edit

Translations

edit

Further reading

edit

Galician

edit
 
Slices of Galician empanada, ready to be served
 
Empanada de millo ("maize pie")
 
Festa da Empanada ("pie fair"), Bandeira

Etymology

edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese enpãada, enpanada (13th century: Cantigas de Santa Maria), from *empãar (“to put into bread”). Perhaps under the influence of empanar (“to conceal”, literally “to put into a cloth”). Cognate with Portuguese empada.

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

empanada f (plural empanadas)

  1. (cooking) pie; traditional stuffed pastry usually composed of two crusts of fine bread and a filling of sauté of vegetables and either meat or fish
edit

Participle

edit

empanada f sg

  1. feminine singular of empanado

See also

edit

References

edit
  • Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “empanada”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “empaada”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • “empanada” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “empanada” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “empanada” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

edit

Participle

edit

empanada f sg

  1. feminine singular of empanado

Spanish

edit

Etymology

edit

From empanar (“to bread”).

Pronunciation

edit
  • IPA(key): /empaˈnada/ [ẽm.paˈna.ð̞a]
  • Rhymes: -ada
  • Syllabification: em‧pa‧na‧da

Noun

edit

empanada f (plural empanadas)

  1. empanada
  2. (colloquial) fraud

Derived terms

edit

Descendants

edit
  • → Belizean Creole: panaades (from the plural form)
  • → English: empanada

Adjective

edit

empanada f sg

  1. feminine singular of empanado

Participle

edit

empanada f sg

  1. feminine singular of empanado

Further reading

edit

Tagalog

edit

Alternative forms

edit

Etymology

edit

Borrowed from Spanish empanada. Compare Manado Malay panada.

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

empanada (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜋ᜔ᜉᜈᜇ)

  1. empanada (especially Philippine varieties)
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=empanada&oldid=80263962"