noun
Meaning 1
A type of Mexican flatbread made out of cornmeal or flour.
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
tortilla
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /tɔːˈtijə/
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Received-Pronunciation: /tɔːˈti.ə/
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US: /tɔɹˈti.ə/
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US: /tɔɹˈtijə/
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US: [tɔɹˈthijə]
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rhymes with -iːə
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noun
Meaning 2
Spanish omelette; a type of omelette containing potatoes and onions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
thin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pancake, battercake, flannel cake, flannel-cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hotcake, hot cake
Narrower terms: tostada
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish tortilla.
Across languages
Translations
57 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: tortilla — Mexican flatbread
- Guerrero Amuzgo: cha — Mexican flatbread
- Arabic: تورتيا (tōrtiyya) — Mexican flatbread
- Azerbaijani: yuxa — Mexican flatbread
- Azerbaijani: yayma — Mexican flatbread
- Bulgarian: тортиля (tortilja) — Mexican flatbread
- Bulgarian: тортия (tortija) — Mexican flatbread
- Catalan: truita — Mexican flatbread
- Chinese Mandarin: 墨西哥薄餅 /墨西哥薄饼 (Mòxīgē báobǐng) — Mexican flatbread
- Esperanto: tortiljo — Mexican flatbread
- Estonian: tortilla — Mexican flatbread
- Finnish: tortilla — Mexican flatbread
- Galician: tortilla de fariña de trigo — Mexican flatbread
- Galician: tortilla de fariña — Mexican flatbread
- Galician: tortilla de trigo — Mexican flatbread
- German: Tortilla — Mexican flatbread
- Greek: τορτίγια (tortígia) — Mexican flatbread
- Interlingua: tortilla — Mexican flatbread
- Italian: tortilla — Mexican flatbread
- Japanese: トルティーヤ (torutīya) — Mexican flatbread
- Lithuanian: tortilija — Mexican flatbread
- Maltese: tortilla — Mexican flatbread
- Marathi: टॉर्टिया (ṭŏrṭiyā) — Mexican flatbread
- Central Nahuatl: tlaxcalli — Mexican flatbread
- Classical Nahuatl: tlaxcalli — Mexican flatbread
- Guerrero-Nahuatl: tlaxkajli — Mexican flatbread
- Highland Puebla Nahuatl: taxcal — Mexican flatbread
- Mecayapan Nahuatl: táxcal — Mexican flatbread
- Michoacán Nahuatl: laxcali — Mexican flatbread
- Morelos Nahuatl: tlaxkale — Mexican flatbread
- Northern Puebla Nahuatl: tlaxcali — Mexican flatbread
- Tetelcingo-Nahuatl: tlaxcali̱ — Mexican flatbread
- Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl: tlaxcal — Mexican flatbread
- Navajo: náneeskaadí — Mexican flatbread
- Norwegian Bokmål: tortilla — Mexican flatbread
- Norwegian Bokmål: tortillalefse — Mexican flatbread
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tortilla — Mexican flatbread
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tortillalefse — Mexican flatbread
- Polish: tortilla — Mexican flatbread
- Portuguese: tortilha — Mexican flatbread
- Russian: торти́лья (tortílʹja) — Mexican flatbread
- Spanish: tortilla triguera — Mexican flatbread
- Spanish: tortilla maicera — Mexican flatbread
- Spanish: tlayuda — Mexican flatbread
- Spanish: kodzito — Mexican flatbread
- Spanish: pishtón — Mexican flatbread
- Spanish: tlaxcal (tlashkal) (corn) — Mexican flatbread
- Swedish: tortilla — Mexican flatbread
- Swedish: tortillabröd — Mexican flatbread
- Turkish: lavaş — Mexican flatbread
- Tzotzil: vaj — Mexican flatbread
- Tz'utujil: aawaay — Mexican flatbread
- Tz'utujil: way — Mexican flatbread
- Yiddish: טאָרטיִע (tortie) — Mexican flatbread
- Yucatec Maya: waaj — Mexican flatbread
- Choapan Zapotec: yëta — Mexican flatbread
- Isthmus Zapotec: gueta — Mexican flatbread
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