nacho

See also: Nacho

English

Etymology

From nachos.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnæt͡ʃəʊ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑt͡ʃoʊ/
• Rhymes: -ætʃəʊ

Noun

nacho (plural nachos)

1. A single tortilla chip from a dish of nachos.

Translations

tortilla chip

• German: Nacho (de) m
• Polish: nachos (pl) m, naczos (pl) m
• Portuguese: nacho (pt) m
• Yiddish: נאַטשאָ m (natsho), (tortilla chip): טאָרטיִע־טשיפּקעלע n (tortie-tshipkele)

Anagrams

• Chaon, Cohan, ancho

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish nacho.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈna.t͡ʃu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈna.t͡ʃu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈna.t͡ʃo/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈna.ʃu/, /ˈna.t͡ʃu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈna.ʃu/, /ˈna.t͡ʃu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈna.t͡ʃu/

• Rhymes: -aʃu, -at͡ʃu
• Hyphenation: na‧cho

Noun

nacho m (plural nachos)

1. (usually in the plural) nacho (Mexican dish of tortilla chips)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnat͡ʃo/ [ˈna.t͡ʃo]
• Rhymes: -atʃo
• Syllabification: na‧cho

Etymology 1

From the personal name Nacho; the Mexican creator of the dish, Ignacio Anaya (1895–1975), named it after himself in 1943. Nacho is a diminutive form of Ignacio.

Noun

nacho m (plural nachos)

1. nacho

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin nāsus (“nose”). Compare Portuguese nacho.

Adjective

nacho (feminine nacha, masculine plural nachos, feminine plural nachas)

1. (Asturias) pug-nosed

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ancho

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

Prepositional phrase

nacho

1. ki class_(VII) inflected form of na

See also

Object-inflected forms of na

		Singular	Plural
1st person		nami	nasi
2nd person		nawe	nanyi
3rd person	m-wa(I/II)	naye	nao
	m-mi(III/IV)	nao	nayo
	ji-ma(V/VI)	nalo	nayo
	ki-vi(VII/VIII)	nacho	navyo
	n(IX/X)	nayo	nazo
	u(XI)	nao	see n(X) or ma(VI)
	ku(XV/XVII)	nako
	pa(XVI)	napo
	mu(XVIII)	namo
For a full table, see Appendix:Swahili personal pronouns.