name
Meaning 1
A city in Ghana, the capital city of the Northern Region.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
tamale
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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tə-mä′lē
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Received-Pronunciation: /təˈmɑː.liː/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Canada, General-American: /təˈmɑ.li/
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Canada: /təˈmɒ.li/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /təˈmɐː.liː/
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Scotland: /təˈma.li/
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rhymes with -ɑːli
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homophone: tomalley
noun
Meaning 2
A Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: humita, tamal
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
corn and cornmeal dough stuffed with a meat mixture then wrapped in corn husks and steamed
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dish
noun
Meaning 4
a city in northern Ghana
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: city, metropolis, urban center
History
Etymology
Back-formation from the plural tamales, derived from Latin American Spanish tamales, plural of tamal, derived from Nahuatl tamalli (“wrapped”), derived from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *tïmaL-. Compare O'odham cemait (“tortilla”), Hopi tuma (“stone griddle for cooking corn flatbread”), Ute tʉ'ma- (“to roast under ashes”).
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Cherokee: ᏔᎹᎴ (tamale) — Mexican dish
- Chinese Mandarin: 塔馬利 /塔马利 (tǎmǎlì) — Mexican dish
- Chinese Mandarin: 墨西哥玉米粉蒸肉 (mòxīgē yùmǐ fěn zhēngròu) — Mexican dish
- Japanese: タマレ (tamare) — Mexican dish
- Navajo: ałchʼįʼ beʼestłʼóní — Mexican dish
- Navajo: Naakaii bintsidígoʼí — Mexican dish
- Navajo: nijiloʼí — Mexican dish
- Polish: tamal — Mexican dish
- Spanish: tamal — Mexican dish
- Spanish: tamale — Mexican dish
- Spanish: pishque — Mexican dish
- Spanish: paco — Mexican dish
- Tagalog: tamales — Mexican dish
- Taos: tomòliʼína — Mexican dish
- Isthmus Zapotec: gueta guu — Mexican dish