Tamale

Noun

 * 1) Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks.

Adjectives of Tamale
low-fat; homemade; vegetarian; fresh corn; hot; frozen; uncooked.

Related terms
fresh corn tamale; organic premium corn tamale; dessert tamale; green corn tamale; sugar tamale.

Derived terms

 * hot tamale

Etymology of Tamale
plural tamales:, from tamales:, plural of tamal:, from  tamalli:.

Usage notes
The Standard Spanish singular is tamal:, and thus some proscribe tamale as an incorrect back-formation, preferring to use tamal: as the English singular; note however that tamale exists in Spanish dialect. The similarity of tamale to the ancestral Nahuatl tamalli: is not generally cited in support of the English usage of tamale.

Translations of Tamale

 * Isthmus Zapotec: gueta guu
 * Spanish:


 * Taos: tomòli’ína

Anagrams

 * malate, meatal

Noun

 * 1)  tamale

Related terms

 * tamal