barbacoa

Borrowed from Spanish barbacoa (whence also barbecue), from Taíno barbakoa (“framework of sticks”), the raised wooden structure the natives used to either sleep on or cure meat. Originally “meal of roasted meat or fish”.

• IPA^(key): /ˌbɑː(ɹ)bəˈkoʊ.ə/

• Audio (US):

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barbacoa (uncountable)

1. Meat slow-cooked over an open fire, characteristic of Latin American cuisine.
   • 2004 January 16, Mike Sula, “The Cooking Life”, in Chicago Reader‎:

     At first Andablo tried to make barbacoa with cow heads, but something about American beef didn't taste right. "

• barbecue
• balbacua

• barbacoa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Spanish barbacoa, from Taíno barbakoa.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

barbacoa f (plural barbacoes)

1. barbecue (fireplace or pit for grilling food)
2. barbecue (meat that has been cooked in such an apparatus)

• “barbacoa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “barbacoa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “barbacoa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• barbacoa on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca

Borrowed from Taíno barbakoa (“framework of sticks”), the raised wooden structure the Indians used to either sleep on or cure meat. Originally “meal of roasted meat or fish”.

• IPA^(key): /baɾbaˈkoa/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -oa
• Syllabification: bar‧ba‧co‧a

barbacoa f (plural barbacoas)

1. barbecue (fireplace or pit for grilling food)
2. meats (traditionally from the inside of a cow's cheek or jaw) or a whole sheep slow cooked over an open fire, or more traditionally, in a hole dug in the ground covered with maguey leaves, although the interpretation is loose
3. meat steamed until tender (most common present use)

• → English: barbecue
  • → Cebuano: barbekyu
  • → Tagalog: barbikyu
• → Cebuano: balbakuwa
  • → English: balbacua
• → Tagalog: balbakwa

• “barbacoa”, 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
• barbacoa on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es