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pachamanca

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
pachaman-ca
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An underground pit lined with hot stones and used for traditional Peruvian cooking.

noun

A gathering in which food is cooked in a pachamanca.

noun

A traditional Peruvian dish of meat and vegetables characteristically baked with the aid of hot stones.

Etymology

From Spanish pachamanca, from Aymara pacha (“earth”) + manq'a (“food”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Food.

Inflected Forms

pachamancas (plural)

Questions

What does pachamanca mean?
An underground pit lined with hot stones and used for traditional Peruvian cooking.
Where does pachamanca come from?
It is traced to Spanish.

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