empanada

Etymology

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

Noun

empanada (plural empanadas)

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

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old 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

• IPA^(key): /empaˈnaða̝/

Noun

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

See also

• empanada on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

References

• “empanada” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “enpanada” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “empanada” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “empanada” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “empanada” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Participle

empanada

1. feminine singular of the past participle of empanar

Etymology

From empanar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /empaˈnada/, [ẽmpaˈnaða]

Noun

empanada f (plural empanadas)

1. empanada
2. (colloquial) fraud

Verb

empanada

1. feminine singular of the past participle of empanar

Further reading

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