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Tamale Moderate

Tamale has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a city in northern Ghana

2

dough stuffed with a meat mixture and sometimes wrapped in corn husks and steamed

3

Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
dish

Origin

The word "tamale" comes from the Spanish plural form of the Nahuatl word tamalli, which originally meant "wrapped." This root traces back to a Proto-Uto-Aztecan term related to cooking corn flatbread.

Rhyming Words
ale gale dale bale pale tale cale kale hale sale nale yale vale zale rale swale orale teale peale whale
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