sopaipilla
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish sopaipilla.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iːə
Noun
sopaipilla (countable and uncountable, plural sopaipillas)
- A small, crisp, puffy, deep-fried pastry often served with honey.
- Synonym: sopaipa
- 2020, Marjorie Agosín, translated by Alison Ridley, “Changes Afoot”, in The Maps of Memory: Return to Butterfly Hill (The Butterfly Hill Series; 2), New York, N.Y.: Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, published September 2021, →ISBN, part 1 (The Esmeralda Returns), page 41:
- Between bites of sopaipilla, I ask why so many restaurants in Valparaíso are serving American-style food.
Further reading
- sopaipilla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Spanish
Etymology
From sopaipa + -illa (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sopaiˈpiʝa/ [so.pai̯ˈpi.ʝa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /sopaiˈpiʎa/ [so.pai̯ˈpi.ʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /sopaiˈpiʃa/ [so.pai̯ˈpi.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /sopaiˈpiʒa/ [so.pai̯ˈpi.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -iʝa (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -iʎa (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -iʒa (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: so‧pai‧pi‧lla
Noun
sopaipilla f (plural sopaipillas)
Further reading
- “sopaipilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025