pupusa

Borrowed from Spanish pupusa, from Pipil pupusawa (“swollen”).

pupusa (plural pupusas)

1. A thick, hand-rolled maize tortilla.

• upupas

Borrowed from Pipil pupusawa (“swollen”). However, linguist Alan King, who has worked on Pipil Nawat, asserts this word is spurious, invented by Salvadoran linguist Pedro Geoffroy Rivas. The word is also absent from Lyle Campbell's lexicon.

• IPA^(key): /puˈpusa/ [puˈpu.sa]

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• Rhymes: -usa
• Syllabification: pu‧pu‧sa

pupusa f (plural pupusas)

1. (Central America) a stuffed tortilla
2. (Central America, vulgar, slang) pussy, vulva

• → English: pupusa

• “pupusa”, 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