empanada

noun em-pah-NAH-dah Rare

Origin: Spanish empanar (to bread, to wrap in dough), from pan (bread)

Also means

stuffed pastry

Usage Note

Empanada is a filled dough pastry, baked or fried, found across Spain and Latin America. In Spain the Galician empanada gallega (a large flat pie) is iconic; in Latin America individual hand-held versions are ubiquitous street food. The miniature version is called empanadilla.

Examples

"Compramos una empanada de atún en la panadería."

Natural Translation

We bought a tuna empanada at the bakery.

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