tamale
A Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients then steamed in…A Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks.
» Sami used to make us tamales.
Значення
значень: 1A Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks.
dough stuffed with a meat mixture and sometimes wrapped in corn husks and steamed
Приклади
речень: 8Sami used to make us tamales.
Sami knows how to make tamales.
I can smell the tamales from here.
Are there any tamales in José's house?
Чи є в будинку Хосе тамале?
He doesn't even know how to make tamales.
Переклади
мов: 2Походження
Back-formation from the plural tamales, derived from Latin American Spanish tamales, pluraBack-formation from the plural tamales, derived from Latin American Spanish tamales, plural of tamal, derived from Nahuatl tamalli (“wrapped”), derived from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *tïmaL-. Compare O'odham cemait (“tortilla”), Hopi tuma (“stone griddle for cooking corn flatbread”), Ute tʉ'ma- (“to roast under ashes”).
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