chalupa

See also: Chalupa, chałupa, Chałupa, chałupą, and Chałupą

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish chalupa. Doublet of shallop and sloop.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃəˈluːpə/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

chalupa (plural chalupas)

1. A shallop (light boat) from Xochimilco.
2. A specialty food of south-central Mexico, consisting of a bowl-shaped fried tortilla stuffed with chopped meat, lettuce, cheese, etc.
   • 2018, Dotty Griffith, The Ultimate Tortilla Press Cookbook, page 116:

     The Tex-Mex–style chalupas I'm most familiar with are built on flat, crisp-fried corn tortillas.

   • 2021 May 6, Lyda Jones Burnette, “Shrimp Chalupas”, in Country Living Magazine:

     (see title)

   • 2021 December 6, Hannah Albertine, Nikko Duren, Carlo Mantuano, “NYC’s Best New Dishes Of 2021”, in The Infatuation:

     The tortillas for the chalupas are cooked in pork lard on a charcoal-fired comal, and they get doused with salsa, shredded pork, and onions.

Derived terms

• drop a chalupa
• enchalupa
• quesalupa

Related terms

• chalupita

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech chalupa, from Proto-Slavic *xalupa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈxalupa]

Noun

chalupa f

1. cottage; rural house

Declension

Declension of chalupa (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	chalupa	chalupy
genitive	chalupy	chalup
dative	chalupě	chalupám
accusative	chalupu	chalupy
vocative	chalupo	chalupy
locative	chalupě	chalupách
instrumental	chalupou	chalupami

Derived terms

• chaloupečka
• chaloupka
• chalupář
• chalupník

 

Further reading

• “chalupa”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “chalupa”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “chalupa”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French chaloupe, likely from Old French eschalope (“shell”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃaˈlu.pɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃaˈlu.pɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃaˈlu.pa/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃɐˈlu.pɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃɐˈlu.pɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɐˈlu.pɐ/

• Hyphenation: cha‧lu‧pa

Noun

chalupa f (plural chalupas)

1. sloop (single-masted sailboat)

Adjective

chalupa m or f (plural chalupas)

1. (Portugal) crazy, mad

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xalupa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈxalupa]

Noun

chalupa f (diminutive chalúpka or chalúpočka or chalúpčička, augmentative chalupisko)

1. cottage; rural house

Declension

Declension of chalupa (pattern žena)

	singular	plural
nominative	chalupa	chalupy
genitive	chalupy	chalúp
dative	chalupe	chalupám
accusative	chalupu	chalupy
locative	chalupe	chalupách
instrumental	chalupou	chalupami

Further reading

• “chalupa”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French chaloupe, from Old French eschalope (“shell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaˈlupa/ [t͡ʃaˈlu.pa]
• Rhymes: -upa
• Syllabification: cha‧lu‧pa

Noun

chalupa f (plural chalupas)

1. (nautical) shallop, sloop, launch (a kind of longboat)
2. (Chile) flip-flop, slipper, sandal
3. (Mexico) two-man canoe
4. (Mexico) a chalupa (bowl-shaped fried tortilla stuffed with chopped meat, lettuce, cheese, etc.)
5. (Mexico, slang) fat girl

Descendants

• → English: chalupa

Further reading

• “chalupa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10