botifarra

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan botifarra.

Noun

botifarra (plural botifarras)

  1. A spiced pork sausage typical of Catalan cuisine.
    • 2015 April 17, Lisa Abend, “Sweet and Salty: Majorca’s Traditional Cuisine”, in The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331:
      He squeezed oranges for juice to go with the botifarra, a pork sausage spiced with cloves and cumin, and the spreadable sobrassada, tinted red from Majorcan paprika.

Further reading


Catalan

botifarra blanca

Etymology

From Late Latin buttis (cask, wineskin).

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic) IPA(key): /bo.tiˈfa.rə/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /bu.tiˈfa.rə/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /bo.tiˈfa.ra/
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Noun

botifarra f (plural botifarres)

  1. botifarra (spiced sausage)
  2. (uncountable, card games) a Catalan card game
  3. a Catalan hand gesture indicating disapproval

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Spanish: butifarra

Further reading

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