albondiga

From Spanish albóndiga (“meatball”).

albondiga (plural albondigas)

1. A Spanish or Latin American variety of meatball.
   • 2007 April 15, “Expanding the Options”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Tapas selections like Spanish omelets, mussels romesco, ceviche, jumbo shrimp with garlic, and albondigas — meatballs with tomato mint sauce — share the menu with larger plates like chicken and wild mushroom paella, and grilled pork chop with savoy cabbage, bacon and apple puree.

• Badoglian

Inherited from Spanish albóndiga.

albóndiga

1. meatball

From Arabic بُنْدُقَة (bunduqa, “hazelnut”), from Ancient Greek Ποντικόν κάρυον (Pontikón káruon). Compare Spanish albóndiga and Portuguese almôndega.

albondiga f (plural albondigas)

1. meatball
   • 2019 May 22, Silvio & Eyal Ovadya, “Un evenimyento, una dicha/un proverbo”, in Şalom‎^[2]:

     Todos los ke vinieron pudieron komer ligado d’Andirne (Edirne Ciğeri) mizmo kasher, albondigas (koftes) i sarsicha (sucuk) kon salatas.

     All who came could eat Edirne liver even kosher, meatballs (koftas) and sausages (soudjouk) with salads.