quesadilla

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish quesadilla.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌkeɪ̯səˈdiː(l)jə/, [ˌkʰeɪ̯səˈdiːl(j)ə], /ˌkeɪ̯səˈdiːə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) enPR: kāsədē′ə, IPA^(key): /ˌkeɪ̯səˈdi(j)ə/, [ˌkʰeɪ̯səˈdi(j)ə]
• Rhymes: -iːə

Noun

quesadilla (plural quesadillas)

1. A Mexican dish made by filling a tortilla with cheese and sometimes other ingredients and then cooking it until the cheese is melted.

Derived terms

• pizzadilla
• quesalupa
• quesarito

Translations

Mexican dish

• Arabic:
• Catalan: quesadilla f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 油炸玉米粉餅／油炸玉米粉饼 (yóuzhá yùmǐfěnbǐng)

• Classical Nahuatl: tlaxcalpocholli
• Finnish: quesadilla (fi)
• French: quesadilla (fr) f
• Italian: quesadilla f
• Japanese: ケサディーヤ (kesadīya), ケサディージャ (kesadīja)
• Polish: quesadilla (pl) f
• Portuguese: quesadilha f
• Spanish: quesadilla (es) f
• Tagalog: kesadilya

Spanish

Etymology

From quesada +‎ -illa, in turn from queso +‎ -ada (compare the development of frijolada, mariscada). One folk etymology more directly derives the word from a portmanteau of queso and tortilla.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kesaˈdiʝa/ [ke.saˈð̞i.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kesaˈdiʝa/ [ke.saˈð̞i.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /kesaˈdiʎa/ [ke.saˈð̞i.ʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kesaˈdiʃa/ [ke.saˈð̞i.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kesaˈdiʒa/ [ke.saˈð̞i.ʒa]

• Audio (Mexico):

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• Rhymes: -iʝa

• Rhymes: -iʝa
• Rhymes: -iʎa
• Rhymes: -iʃa
• Rhymes: -iʒa

• Syllabification: que‧sa‧di‧lla

Noun

quesadilla f (plural quesadillas)

1. quesadilla
2. (El Salvador) a type of pan dulce made with rice flour and queso duro blanco and topped with sesame seeds, known elsewhere in the Spanish-speaking world as a quesadilla salvadoreña

Related terms

• queso

 

Descendants

• English: quesadilla

See also

• molote
• sincronizada

Further reading

• “quesadilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28