Tamale Definition

tə-mälē
tamales
noun
A Mexican dish consisting of cornmeal dough around a filling as of minced meat and red peppers, the whole then wrapped in corn husks or plantain leaves and cooked by baking, steaming, etc.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Tamale

Noun

Singular:
tamale
Plural:
tamales

Origin of Tamale

  • Back-formation from plural tamales, from Spanish tamales, plural of tamal, from Nahuatl (“wrapped").

    From Wiktionary

  • From American Spanish tamales pl. of tamal tamale from Nahuatl tamalli

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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Words Starting With

TTATAM

Words Ending With

ELEALE

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