hallaca
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈʝaka/ [aˈʝa.ka] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /aˈʎaka/ [aˈʎa.ka] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /aˈʃaka/ [aˈʃa.ka] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /aˈʒaka/ [aˈʒa.ka] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -aka
- Syllabification: ha‧lla‧ca
Noun
hallaca f (plural hallacas)
- (Venezuela) Venezuelan Christmas dish made with corn dough, often filled with many ingredients, e.g. beans, meat, chicken, pork, wrapped in banana leaves and then cooked by steaming or in boiling water
- Synonyms: multisápida, tamale
Derived terms
Further reading
- “hallaca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024