sobrasada

English

Noun

sobrasada (countable and uncountable, plural sobrasadas)

1. Alternative form of sobrassada
   • 2012, Celia de Anca, Beyond Tribalism: Managing Identities in a Diverse World, Springer, →ISBN:

     A Brazilian friend told me once that when he arrived in Spain, he developed a taste for sobrasada (a very typical charcuterie from the Balearic islands). And so my friend would often buy sobrasada and bring it to the breakfast table every morning.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian soprassata, perhaps via Catalan sobrassada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sobɾaˈsada/ [so.β̞ɾaˈsa.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: so‧bra‧sa‧da

Noun

sobrasada f (plural sobrasadas)

1. sobrassada (spiced, cured pork sausage from the Balearic Islands)
   • 2015 July 24, “Sollo, esturiones de pata negra”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Resulta agradable la sobrasada de esturión sobre obleas crujientes; sabroso el macaron de morcilla, que recuerda el de Mugaritz de hace dos temporadas, y suculenta la anguila con alioli de ajo negro.

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Further reading

• “sobrasada”, 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
• sobrasada on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es