vatapá

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese vatapá, from Yoruba ẹ̀bà Tápà (“pirão thickened in the style of the Nupe people”).

Noun

vatapá (plural vatapás)

1. An Afro-Brazilian dish made with bread, shrimp, coconut milk, peanuts and palm oil mashed into a creamy paste.
   • 2011 January 11, Dave Cook, “Point Brazil”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Overstuffed, inevitably, with vatapá, a creamy paste flavored with seafood and nuts; caruru de quiabo, an onion-and-ginger-laced okra gumbo; and bacalao salad. It’s a taste of Brazilian summer, down to the last licked finger.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Yoruba ẹ̀bà Tápà (“pirão thickened in the style of the Nupe people”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /va.taˈpa/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɐ.tɐˈpa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɐ.tɐˈpa/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ.tɐˈpa/

• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: va‧ta‧pá

Noun

vatapá m (plural vatapás)

1. vatapá (Afro-Brazilian dish)
   • 1976, Dorival Caymmi (lyrics and music), “Vatapá”, in Gal Canta Caymmi, performed by Gal Costa:

     Com qualquer dez mil réis e uma nega, ô / Se faz um vatapá, se faz um vatapá / E que bom vatapá

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