pupusa
English edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish pupusa, from Pipil pupusawa (“swollen”).
Noun edit
pupusa (plural pupusas)
- A thick, hand-rolled maize tortilla.
See also edit
Anagrams edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Pipil pupusawa (“swollen”). However, linguist Alan King, who has worked on Pipil Nawat, asserts this word is spurious, invented by Salvadoran linguist Pedro Geoffroy Rivas. The word is also absent from Lyle Campbell's lexicon.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pupusa f (plural pupusas)
- (Central America) a stuffed tortilla
- (Central America, vulgar, slang) pussy, vulva
Descendants edit
- → English: pupusa
Further reading edit
- “pupusa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014