arepa

Borrowed from Spanish arepa.

arepa (plural arepas)

1. A type of cornbread originating from the northern Andes and resembling a tortilla.
   • 2009 January 25, Kris Ensminger, “On the Cheap”, in New York Times‎:

     The menu darts among Latin American cuisines like arepas, empanadas (a duo) and […] a gigantic Peruvian-style rotisserie chicken.

• Often written in italics (arepa) or pronounced as a Spanish word.

• arepa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• ARPA-E

Compare Trió arepa, erepa, ërepa.

• (Venezuela, West Suriname) IPA^(key):
• (East Suriname) IPA^(key):

arepa (possessed erepary)

1. cassava, cassava bread
2. food in general

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 239
• Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “arepa”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 99; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎, Paris, 1956, page 100

arepa f (plural arepas)

1. arepa (type of corn bread from the northern Andes)

Borrowed from Cumanagoto erepa (“corn”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾepa/

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• Rhymes: -epa
• Syllabification: a‧re‧pa

arepa f (plural arepas)

1. a pancake made out of cornmeal and often filled with meat

• “arepa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10