empanada

See also: empañada

English

Small empanadas from Spain

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish empanada, past participle of empanar (“to wrap in bread”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛmpəˈnɑːdə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːdə

Noun

empanada (plural empanadas)

1. Any of a variety of stuffed pastries found in Spanish, Filipino, and Latin American cuisine.

Related terms

• empanadilla

Translations

stuffed pastry

• Afrikaans: empanada
• Finnish: piirakka (fi), empanada (fi)
• Spanish: empanada (es) f, artal m

Further reading

• empanada on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Galician

Slices of Galician empanada, ready to be served

Empanada de millo ("maize pie")

Festa da Empanada ("pie fair"), Bandeira

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese enpãada, enpanada (13th century: Cantigas de Santa Maria), from *empãar (“to put into bread”). Perhaps under the influence of empanar (“to conceal”, literally “to put into a cloth”). Cognate with Portuguese empada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /empaˈnaða̝/

Noun

empanada f (plural empanadas)

1. (cooking) pie; traditional stuffed pastry usually composed of two crusts of fine bread and a filling of sauté of vegetables and either meat or fish

Related terms

• petada
• empanadilla
• empanar

Participle

empanada f sg

1. feminine singular of empanado

See also

• empanada on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “empanada”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “empaada”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “empanada”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “empanada”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “empanada”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Portuguese

Participle

empanada f sg

1. feminine singular of empanado

Spanish

Etymology

From empanar (“to bread”) +‎ -ada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /empaˈnada/ [ẽm.paˈna.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: em‧pa‧na‧da

Noun

empanada f (plural empanadas)

1. empanada
2. (colloquial) fraud

   Synonym: fraude

3. (humorous, colloquial) vagina

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

Derived terms

• empanada arreglada
• empanadilla

Descendants

• → Belizean Creole: panaades (from the plural form)
• → English: empanada

Adjective

empanada f sg

1. feminine singular of empanado

Participle

empanada f sg

1. feminine singular of empanado

Further reading

• “empanado”, 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

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• impanada
• panada

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish empanada. Compare Manado Malay panada. Doublet of panara.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔempaˈnada/ [ʔɛm.pɐˈn̪aː.d̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: em‧pa‧na‧da

Noun

empanada (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜋ᜔ᜉᜈᜇ)

1. empanada (especially Philippine varieties)

Further reading

• “empanada”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “empanada”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018