tortilla

→ English: tortilla

→ Finnish: tortilla

→ Galician: tortilla

→ German: Tortilla

→ Polish: tortilla

rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines

Inherited from Old Spanish tortiella, diminutive of torta (“round flatbread”).

(Spain and most Hispanic countries) Spanish omelette, tortilla (omelette)


jalapeño

es-adj

jalapeño (feminine jalapeña, masculine plural jalapeños, feminine plural jalapeñas)

jalapeña (feminine)
jalapeños (masculine plural)
jalapeñas (feminine plural)


puro

→ English: puro

→ Greek: πούρο (poúro)

→ Turkish: puro

Inherited from Old Spanish puro, from Latin pūrus. In the noun sense short for cigarro puro, a product to be smoked that is made – unlike the cigarette – of “tabaco puro, sin papel” (pure tobacco, without paper). Note that in Spanish the unqualified term cigarro can also refer to a cigarette.


chipotle

From a compound of Classical Nahuatl chīlli (“pepper”) + pōctli (“smoke”).


cascabel

→ English: cascabel

→ French: cascabelle

From Old Occitan cascavel, from Vulgar Latin cascābellus (“small bell”), diminutive of cascābus, from Latin cāccabus.
Influenced by Latin quassicāre, based on Latin quassāre (“to shake repeatedly, to quake”), because when the chili is being prepared, the seeds make a rattling noise when the pepper is dried.


chile

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl chīlli (“pepper”).

bor+

(Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Philippines, US) chili, chilli, chile


rapé

snuff (finely ground or pulverised tobacco for sniffing)


tabaco

→ English: tabacco, tobacco

desctree

→ Portuguese: tabaco
→ Gujarati: તમાકુ (tamāku)
→ Japanese: たばこ (tabako)
→ Japanese: タバコ (tabako)
→ Early Modern Korean: 담파고 (tamphakwo)
→ Ainu: タンパク (tampaku)

→ French: tabac

→ Romanian: tabac

Said from Arabic طُبَّاق (ṭubbāq, “Dittrichia viscosa”) or from Kari'na and/or Taíno, from tabago (“tube for inhaling smoke or powdered intoxicating plants”).


pimiento

Inherited from Latin pigmentum. Compare the borrowed doublet pigmento.

(Spain, Mexico, US, Guatemala, Peru) bell pepper (ellipsis of pimiento morrón.)


lulo

Solanum quitoense
Solanum quitoense#Translingual


chichigua

(El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua) wet nurse

(Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua) nipplefruit


chichigua

es-adj

chichigua m or f (masculine and feminine plural chichiguas)

(rustic, Guatemala, Mexico) female (of an animal being raised)


estanco

estanco (feminine estanca, masculine plural estancos, feminine plural estancas)

estanca (feminine)
estancos (masculine plural)
estancas (feminine plural)


estanco

(Spain) shop or commercial outlet where controlled items, especially cigarettes, are sold


toloache

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl toloatzin.


pimiento morrón

es-noun

pimiento morrón m (plural pimientos morrones)

(Spain, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Chile) bell pepper, sweet pepper


horro

es-adj

horro (feminine horra, masculine plural horros, feminine plural horras)

horra (feminine)
horros (masculine plural)
horras (feminine plural)


rocoto

→ English: rocoto


vejiga de perro

es-noun

vejiga de perro f (plural vejigas de perro)


alquequenje

→ Italian: alchechengi

Borrowed from Arabic الكَاكَنْج (al-kākanj, “bladder cherry”).

bor+

Alkekengi officinarum
Alkekengi officinarum#Translingual

Physalis alkekengi
Physalis alkekengi#Translingual

bladder cherry (Alkekengi officinarum (syn. Physalis alkekengi))


dulcamara

Solanum dulcamara
Solanum dulcamara#Translingual

a vine in the nightshade family, bittersweet (Solanum dulcamara)


ají criollo

es-noun

ají criollo m (plural ajís criollos or ajíes criollos)

ajís criollos (plural)
ajíes criollos (plural)


chiltoma

Perhaps from Classical Nahuatl chiltotl, chīltōtōtl (“brightly-coloured bird”), from chīlli + tōtōtl; compare chiltic, chīchīltic (“the colour red”).
Alternatively, perhaps from chilli (“chili, pepper”) + tomatl (“tomatillo”).


tortilla española

tortilla española f (plural tortillas españolas)


chilchote

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl chīlchotl (“green chili pepper”).

bor+

(Mexico) a spicy, green variety of chili pepper used in cooking


aguaymanto

Physalis peruviana
Physalis peruviana#Translingual

Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana) (plant)


tortilla de papas

es-noun

tortilla de papas f (plural tortillas de papas)

(Hispanic Americ, Canary Islands) Spanish omelet


tortilla de patatas

tortilla de patatas f (plural tortillas de patatas)


morrón

Al servir, se adorna con tajitas de pimiento morrón y perejil picado, y se coloca por alrededor del ave en el platón de servir.

2015 December, “Deliciosas recetas navideñas de antaño”, in Prensa Libre:

(Argentina, Uruguay, parts of Chile) sweet pepper, bell pepper


dama de noche

lady of the night orchid (Brassavola nodosa)


tortilla de patata

tortilla de patata f (plural tortillas de patata)


hierba mora

[ˌɟ͡ʝeɾ.β̞a ˈmo.ɾa]

[ˌɟ͡ʝeɾ.β̞a ˈmo.ɾa]

Sanguisorba minor
Sanguisorba minor#Translingual


flor del muerto

flor del muerto f (plural flores del muerto)

Datura stramonium
Datura stramonium#Translingual

(Coahuila) manybristle cinchweed (Pectis papposa)

Tagetes erecta
Tagetes erecta#Translingual

(Chiapas, Tabasco, Valley of Mexico) Mexican marigold (Tagetes erecta)


beleño negro

Hyoscyamus niger
Hyoscyamus niger#Translingual

henbane; black henbane; stinking nightshade (Hyoscyamus niger)


chile morrón

(El Salvador, Honduras) bell pepper, sweet pepper


chile dulce

(Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras) bell pepper, sweet pepper


ají morrón

ají morrón m (plural ajís morrones or ajíes morrones)

ajís morrones (plural)
ajíes morrones (plural)

(Cuba, Dominican Republic) bell pepper, sweet pepper


tagarnina

→ Catalan: tagarnina

→ Galician: tagarnina

Borrowed during the times of Arab Spain from Berber, found in Kabyle lqeṛnun (collective), taqeṛnunt (singulative), a form which has been brought into Afroasiatic triconsonantal root morphology from Medieval Latin carlina, cardina, carduina, reinvention of carduus + -īna.


borrachero

From borracho (“drunk”) + -ero, from its hallucinogenic properties.


tortilla francesa

tortilla francesa f (plural tortillas francesas)


capulí cimarrón

capulí cimarrón m (plural capulís cimarrones or capulíes cimarrones)

capulís cimarrones (plural)
capulíes cimarrones (plural)


trompeta de ángel

trompeta de ángel f (plural trompetas de ángel)

angel's trumpet; a plant of the genus Brugmansia.


duraznillo negro

duraznillo negro m (plural duraznillos negros)


tutiá

sticky nightshade, Solanum sisymbriifolium


espina colorada

espina colorada f (plural espinas coloradas)


revientacaballos

revientacaballos m (plural revientacaballos)


jazmín paraguayo

jazmín paraguayo m (plural jazmines paraguayos)


checal

false heath, shrub of the genus Fabiana.


jaltomate

creeping false holly (Jaltomata procumbens)


huevo de gallo

huevo de gallo m (plural huevos de gallo)

lily of the valley vine (Salpichroa origanifolia)


uvita del campo

uvita del campo f (plural uvitas del campo)

silverleaf nightshade
silverleaf nightshade


tabaco cimarrón

tabaco cimarrón m (plural tabacos cimarrones)

small-flowered tobacco (Nicotiana paniculata)


hierba sosa

Solanum torvum
Solanum torvum#Translingual

susumber, wild eggplant, turkey berry, pendejera (Solanum torvum)