tamale

Etymology
from the plural, from , plural of , from.

Noun

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

Usage notes

 * The standard Spanish singular is, and thus some proscribe tamale as an incorrect back-formation, preferring to use as the English singular. The similarity of tamale to the ancestral Nahuatl  is not generally cited in support of the English usage of tamale as its spelling does not match with the Nahuatl spelling and the word originally entered via Spanish in the form of tamales.

Translations

 * Isthmus Zapotec: gueta guu
 * Navajo: ałchʼįʼ beʼestłʼóní, Naakaii bintsidígoʼí, nijiloʼí
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: tamales
 * Taos: tomòliʼína