enchilada

From Spanish enchilada, past participle of enchilar (“to add chili pepper to”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɛn.t͡ʃɪˈlɑ.də/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːdə

enchilada (plural enchiladas)

1. A Mexican dish made by wrapping a filling in a tortilla, then baking in a sauce.
   • 1990, “I Left My Wallet in El Segundo”, in People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, performed by A Tribe Called Quest:

     It was a nice little pub in the middle of nowhere / Anywhere would have been better / I ordered enchiladas and I ate 'em

• enchilada on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Spanish enchilada.

• IPA^(key): /ˈentʃilɑdɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑdɑ

enchilada

1. enchilada

• “enchilada”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• IPA^(key): /ent͡ʃiˈlada/

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: en‧chi‧la‧da

enchilada f (plural enchiladas)

1. (Mexico) a meal consisting of tortillas cooked in a chile sauce, comes in several variations
2. (Costa Rica) a kind of spicy empanada sold in bakeries

• → English: enchilada

enchilada f sg

1. feminine singular of enchilado

enchilada f sg

1. feminine singular of enchilado

• “enchilada”, 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