noun · rare

tamale

ta·ma·le

tamale · tamales

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.

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UK/təˈmɑː.liː/US/təˈmɑ.li/

» Sami used to make us tamales.

Meaning

1 senses

A 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

Examples

8 sentences

Sami used to make us tamales.
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Sami knows how to make tamales.
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I can smell the tamales from here.
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Are there any tamales in José's house?
Чи є в будинку Хосе тамале?
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He doesn't even know how to make tamales.
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Translations

2 languages

Origin

Back-formation from the plural tamales, derived from Latin American Spanish tamales, plura

Back-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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