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Meaning of Tamale | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
təˈmɑː.liː

Definitions

  1. A city in Ghana, the capital city of the Northern Region.
  2. A Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks.

Equivalents

العربية تامال
Español paco pishque tamal tamale
Português tamale
Tagalog tamales

Examples

“She would peel back the husk, ladle over the salsa verde, stab a plastic fork straight down into the heart of the masa, and hand the tamale over to me.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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